Thread: Victor Brakes
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Re: Victor Brakes

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Originally Posted by mluckham View Post
When I tried hooking the SIGNAL pin of a Digital Output directly to the centre pin of the Victor Brake/Coast header (2006 Robot Controller) the red HARDWARE LED comes on (Master Reset), on the Robot Controller.

This can't be good
In my experience, that red light usually means something is drawing too much current from the RC's +5v output. Are you absolutely certain you got the connection the way you intend it to be? Might your connector be faulty and have a short between signal and ground? Did you perhaps accidentally also connect the +5 from the digital header to the ground (I think it's the Coast end, but I might have that backwards) on the Victor?