Jaguar motor contollers stopped working

[omsahmad]

So here is what happened. I had a fully functioning robot, with all motor controllers working. While the robot was one, I tried putting the pins of the female DB-9 into the ports of the cRIO. I tried to enable the robot and noticed none of the motors worked. I am not sure when they all stopped flashing.

A quick thing I just realized is when I turn the robot ON, the brown jaguars that went out flash once before stopping again. If I continue to add different brown jaguars to the end of of the CAN bus, they work.

Thanks for any help,

Omair

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by omsahmad

While the robot was one, I tried putting the pins of the female DB-9 into the ports of the cRIO.

This sentence confuses me greatly. Female connectors do not have pins that go into anything, and I know of only one cRIO port that can accept a DB9 connector. Can you rephrase it, or perhaps draw a picture of what you mean?

A photo or two of your wiring would help greatly in our attempt to help troubleshoot what's going on.

[omsahmad]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

This sentence confuses me greatly. Female connectors do not have pins that go into anything, and I know of only one cRIO port that can accept a DB9 connector. Can you rephrase it, or perhaps draw a picture of what you mean?

A photo or two of your wiring would help greatly in our attempt to help troubleshoot what's going on.

I'll put up a photo soon.

So for starters, I realized I was doing this all wrong, but I was taking the connectors from inside the RJ12/DB9 convertor and putting them into the pins of the cRIO. I was referring to the the fact that the convertor is a female convertor.

The robot was on, and I did connect the pins incorrectly, so that might have killed it. But I don't think that would short all of the brown motor controllers, and NOT short the black one.

I hope this helps to clear up any confusion.

Thanks,

Omair