Thread: Weird issue with the power distribution block
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Re: Weird issue with the power distribution block
If you measure the resistance from the battery + input to the PD and any of the + WAGO outputs (with no breaker installed), you should measure 100kOhms. With a "dead short" between the + WAGO output and ground, you'll only get 12/100000 = 120 microamps. That's only enough current to start lighting an LED. Any "real" current drawn by a Victor, Spike, Jaguar or Digital Sidecar will VERY quickly "turn the LED off". You can't do anything very interesting (at least in FRC, that is) with 120 microamps other than blink an LED.

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