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Re: Side Card Relay Led issue, please respond

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Originally Posted by Wen1992 View Post
This is team 3324 and we are experiencing head-ache inducing issues with our side card... Our robot utilizes the relay port for our kicker, and before yesterday, it was driving and kicking just fine. About half-way into our day , the kicker just stopped working without any program change while the motor for our wheels still works through the sidecard. The led on the relay port are lit without a programming running or wire plugged into the port(red and green led). We were wondering if this is a mal-function of the sidecard, or is there a fix? Is it even possible for half of the side card to be broken since the pwm ports works fine with jaguars.....
Are you using a Spike module (required I think), and have you checked the fuse on that Spike? Pull out the yellow fuse and look for a burned patch in the middle.
A blown fuse will also cause the LED on the spike module to be off at all times)

It does not appear that the yellow fuse is protected by a 20A breaker on the Power Distribution module.

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