Problem with Victors

[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!