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Re: pic: What's weird with this image

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Originally Posted by Jonathan L. View Post
We tried recalibrating, although we need to try again since I'm not sure they flashed green afterwords. Anyway, we have motors connected to each talon and both motors turned in the same direction. It must be that the internal electronics of one of the talons are reversed at the LED.
That's a more remote possibility, but possibly true. Unless you have the exact same motors wired the exact same way, they might still turn differently. If a multimeter reads the same voltage when you put the red probe on M+ and the black probe on M-, then I would definitely agree with your assessment.

If it is bad internal LED wiring and the Talon is new, I would talk with Vex, Andymark, Cross the Road, or FIRST about getting a replacement. That LED is valuable for troubleshooting, and if all the fault codes are in flashing green, that's going to be extremely confusing.
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