Thread: Victor Problems
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Unread 12-02-2008, 14:04
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Re: Victor Problems

We recently had a similar glitch and traced it back to a low battery on our USB chicklet. All of the sudden our perfectly calibrated Victors started pulsing intermintently, so we recalibrated the crazy ones and they still pulsed. Then the driver noticed the chicklet's led was cycling on and off. So we replaced the chicklet battery and the previously recalibrated Victors were messed up yet again. When we recalibrated (again) everything was good.

Moral of the story?

If your robot starts acting silly for no good reason (i.e. same program that has always been on there), then check ALL of your batteries; backup, 12v, chicklets...all of them.