Problem with Victors

[sloteera]

Maybe you must to set a char (0 to 255) instead 1.0 to control the victors!

[Joe Ross]

It can be hard to get the PWM cable properly seated in the Victor, I'd suspect that is the problem. Since it sounds like you have another robot working, compare how far the PWM cable is inserted on the working robot and the non-working victors.

[Jon Stratis]

We tried wiggling the PWM's in the victors, but that didn't seem to help. Any other ideas? We've never had problems this bad with them before.

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

We tried wiggling the PWM's in the victors, but that didn't seem to help. Any other ideas? We've never had problems this bad with them before.

Pull the cables out, and check for debris, and then reseat them firmly. I can't tell you how many times I've said "it's definitely in there this time" only to be very wrong

[Jon Stratis]

We finally managed to get them all working. I can't tell you the number of times we unplugged them and plugged them back in, with no change. Finally we took one off and hooked it up to the working robot... And it worked! That really made us scratch our heads - especially when we went back to the otter robot and it stopped working!

In the end, we discovered that we were completely setting them wrong - the pins were completed missing the receptacle in the housing, and sliding along the side instead of into the contacts. So we could push them in as firmly as we wanted, and wiggle them forever - they would never be able to touch the contacts. So if you ever have this problem, be careful inserting the PWM's! If you wiggle it before engaging the pins, you can feel the lip of the contacts, and see exactly how easy it is to miss them!

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

We finally managed to get them all working. I can't tell you the number of times we unplugged them and plugged them back in, with no change. Finally we took one off and hooked it up to the working robot... And it worked! That really made us scratch our heads - especially when we went back to the otter robot and it stopped working!

In the end, we discovered that we were completely setting them wrong - the pins were completed missing the receptacle in the housing, and sliding along the side instead of into the contacts. So we could push them in as firmly as we wanted, and wiggle them forever - they would never be able to touch the contacts. So if you ever have this problem, be careful inserting the PWM's! If you wiggle it before engaging the pins, you can feel the lip of the contacts, and see exactly how easy it is to miss them!

Those things are legendary for disagreeing with PWM cable placement. some days I think they were actually alive and actively dodging the pins!

[falconmaster]

Its Voodoo! Thats what we say when that has happened to us. We then glue them in with a glue gun so we don't have to go through that again...