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Unread 21-03-2008, 09:47
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Re: 1726 Electric Problem

Going a little off-topic, here....

At my insistence this year, 1533 copied Al's method of marking devices, wire ends, and PWM cable ends with color-coded tape. I cheaped-out and found a set of small rolls with five colors (plus we had black) at the local Home Depot, but that gave enough color combinations to give everything unique markings. This really saved us when we had to strip the robot down to the chassis and wheels on Thursday at Peachtree to rebuild the transmissions (which we'll have to do again at Champs, darn it). Everything went back together smoothly, quickly and properly.

Thanks, Al. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

One thing where we may have differed was combine colors for similar functions. We have two CIMs in AM Supershifters on each side. The right side motors are blue and white, the left side are red and yellow (single colors), and their Victors are each marked with a single color. The PWM cables and shaft encoders are then colored blue+white and red+yellow for the two sides, and the shifter servo cables are similar. When the shifter cables are connected together in a Y-cable, the single end becomes blue+white+yellow+red.

- Steve (thanks again, Al)