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Spike Relays Not Working

Our robot has a spike relay that is wired up to control our claw via window motor. It was working fine, although we realize the window motor was stalling for at least a part of the time. However, yesterday it just randomly stopped.

What we have done for diagnosis so far:
  • On the digial sidecar, either the red or the green light next to the PWM cable is turning on, depending on which way we telll it to go.
  • On the other end of the PWM cable, when we put the black lead of a multimeter up to the black cable, and the red lead to the white, it gives about 4.5V
  • There is 12V in the correct direction on the spike input
  • There is a circuit breaker/fuse (we tried them both) on the spike, and the light on the spike is lit
  • Even when the window motor is disconnected, we do not get any power on the other side of the spike
  • There is a 20A cicuit breaker on the PD board
  • Robot is enabled, etc, etc; the Relay LEDs on the digital sidecar are ON.
  • I connected one end of a multimeter to common and the other end to each of the outputs (M+ and M-) and didn't get any voltage
I'll probably try putting the spike on different relay ports to see if I get anything.

Thanks for the help!

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