Victors not working..

[Yalib]

when enabled the leds are solid orange and when driven they turn off...

[slijin]

Originally Posted by Yalib

when enabled the leds are solid orange and when driven they turn off...

I assume they turn off whether you drive forwards or backwards?

This almost definitely sounds like an issue with signal incompatibility. As I recommended in my earlier post, check the calibration of your Victors and the output of your joysticks.

You may also want to calibrate your Victors to your joysticks, but keep in mind that this will be something you must constantly double-check when you encounter driving issues, especially when swapping out busted electronics.

[Alan Anderson]

The LED on a Victor is yellow when neutral and will only go green or red as it gets near full voltage. For anything between neutral and full output, the LED will be off. This is normal operation.

Do you have the Victor fans wired to the power input? If so, you can watch whether the fans stop to see whether or not the Victor is still receiving power. A too-high load from the motors could be tripping the circuit breaker.

[slijin]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The LED on a Victor is yellow when neutral and will only go green or red as it gets near full voltage. For anything between neutral and full output, the LED will be off. This is normal operation.

Actually, on a test bed that we've set up (custom designed digital output, controlled w/ a pot), I find that the Victor's LED actually cuts out when the frequency of the signal is adjusted ever so slightly, although I've never scoped the circuit's output (it was mentor designed, sadly, when I had no idea how half the stuff I used worked), so I can't provide any numbers.