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Re: Robot Crashes with voltage spike

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
You don't have the Jaguar outputs cross connected do you?
Accidentally wiring the outputs of two different speed controllers to a motor causes some pretty bizarre behavior. Wiring the other outputs of those speed controllers to another motor can end up shorting the power supply when you try to run the two motors in specific directions. That does sound like a real possibility here. Make absolutely sure that you have the output of each Jaguar going to one and only one motor.