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Re: Spike Relays suddenly stop working
Is your RSL working? We had our RSL and compressor drop out during competition this past weekend. RSL was dead and compressor relay (only relay we use) was red/orange and non blinking. None of the lights along the relay outputs on the Sidecar were working. We swapped the sidecar after running one match with no air and everything was back online. All PWM outputs were functional with the defective sidecar, only relay and RSL light showed problems. We did have some funkiness going on with our limit switches but they were never directly linked to the sidecar. All issues did disappear after the swap though. One of the FTSs had mentioned that they had an issue where bad RSL lights were causing a certain chip on the sidecar to fail and consequently take out the relay outputs. This was not the case for us (blown C6 capacitor) but had cost one team 4 sidecars that competition.
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