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Re: Victor 888 PWM Randomly Fail

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Originally Posted by Dr.Gusta View Post
So last night we were testing our robot and all of our Victor 888's were working and then one by one they died (two of them). They still turn on but keep blinking three times (PWM Error). The two that died were running the two bag motors on our 100:1 Versa-Planetary gearbox. Has anyone had similar issues? This would not be that big of an issue if we were not in the last week of season.
Earlier in the build season we had an Andersen Connector with the power cables reversed. That caused us to apply power in reverse to the robot. Our Victor 888's did not fail then, but later started failing just as you describe. We are in the middle of swapping out all 7 of our victors.

Did you have any sort of reverse power to the victors earlier in the build season?
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