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Re: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
I suspect one of your CIMs is turning against the other. Unplug all breakers except one, run the drivetrain and note the direction. Repeat for all other CIMs. Let us know what you find.
Definitely check this. We have a 6 cim drive train and we were experiencing brownouts under heavy pushing. We found out one motor out of three on one side was wired backwards compared to the other two. Once we fixed that connection the brownouts stopped. Luckily that happened during testing and not at competition.
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