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Re: Wire color...

We were going to mount all of our electronics upside down, but our electrical captain didn't want to have to lay on his back to work on the wiring, so he just hung panels off of the frame. The biggest problem I would see with a board being upside down isn't the breakers, but the pwm cables coming loose. In the past and even this year, we've had a bunch of issues with loose pwm cables causing control devices to cut out during matches.

This year, the pwm cable for our compressor's spike wouldn't seat into the connector if the spike had its housing on. When I just used the internals from the spike, it responded, but as soon as I put the housing back on the spike, there was no communications between the digital sidecar and the spike. After trying different spikes and different cables, I cut some of the housing for the spike off allowing the cable to sit lower and that was the last we saw of that problem.
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