A Story of Victor, and him not connecting

[quinxorin]

This year, our team decided to use Victors instead of Jaguars for the first time since 2008. It's been trouble.

Yesterday, we were having motor signal issues. Some victors would start receiving signal, then stop, then start again. Eventually, we managed to make them all stop working. After three and a half hours, we finally figured it out - the PWM cables have to be put into the victor exactly right, or one of the pins misses and doesn't connect.
Mentors don't seem to remember having all this trouble back in The Olden Days, so what's up? Have the tolerances on the Victors changed, does it have to do with the fact that we make our own PWM cables whereas back then we most likely bought them, or are we doing something terribly wrong?