Victors not working

[jwatson12]

We did hot swap at first but one victor would spin on its own without responding to joystick. The other motor would respond form idle state but only spin in one direction. PWM's were checked out. We think they are seated correctly. What else might this be? This is so strange.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by jwatson12

We did hot swap at first but one victor would spin on its own without responding to joystick. The other motor would respond form idle state but only spin in one direction. PWM's were checked out. We think they are seated correctly. What else might this be? This is so strange.

If a Victor runs by itself, or if it only runs in one direction, it's probably broken. A knowledgeable technician can replace a faulty FET and fix the most common failures.

[jwatson12]

Thanks all for your responses. We were able to get our button assignments and motor drive systems funcitonal via joysitcks; all with Jaguars. We then proceeded to go back through all of our old victors from prior years to see which ones were good. To do this ,we changed our open2motor object in begin.vi to use victors instead of Jaguars. When we testd, no response was realized. No motors moved. we know our code is correct with Jaguars. The question (again) is why no victors using a victor designation?

Next, we changed back to Jaguars on Open2Motor in begin.vi. Out of al five victors tested, NONE, were responsive like the the jaguars. They either turned in one direction, hummmed or turned on their own. We even made sure the pwms were seated correctly and even recalibrated. The only other suggestion I found was to jumper the PWM on the sidecar to change from 5 to 6 volts. I have not done this yet.

Can anyone tell me why victors do not run when assigning victors in the code? I have a hard time believing all my victors are bad. We coded in C last year and had no problems.

Thanks again. Just tryiong to save some money