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Re: RoboRIO Red Power LED

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Originally Posted by jdh042397 View Post
I may have a solution to your problem. We had the same issue with the solid red power light. We went through and unplugged all the fuses except the ones to the vrm. That wasnt the problem. So we went one by one on the PWM's and discovered that on one of them, some knucklehead switched the red and black wires on it so that the negative was in the middle instead of the positive. I unplugged it and swapped the wires back to normal and it worked.

Hope this helps.
I appreciate the tip. We're not using PWMs, unfortunately. So that's not the problem we had, but I'm glad you were able to successfully debug your problem. Nice detective work!