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Re: 17v voltage spike when rotating mecanum

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
The other thing I'd look at is whether you have each motor going to a separate speed controller. I have seen very strange power symptoms when two motors are accidentally cross-wired between two Victors.
We had this on our robot last year... took us forever to figure out why we could drive straight and turn just fine, but when we tried to strafe one side of the robot just refused to move! Swap two wires around, and it worked perfectly.
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