Bad ribbon cable in KOP

[annie1939]

I wanted to advise people that they need to check the ribbon cable that they got in their KOP. We had a rookie build at kickoff and nobody could get the wheels running except for one veteran team (F.R.O.G) . We finally narrowed the problem down to the digital sidecar or the cable. The NI rep there took a look and, sure enough, the ribbon cable connector was reversed. When he removed the connector and flipped it, the signal light came on and the motors started running and there was much rejoicing. There were three teams there that had not gone home in frustration by that point, but all of our cables were bad. The team that had gotten theirs working earlier had used a previous years cable.

Ann