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Re: Runaway CIM motors

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Originally Posted by slijin View Post
Immediately check your robot for a chassis short.

Although Jaguars are a point of failure, applying 12V across drive motors will spin them, no matter where the source. Albeit unlikely, make sure that this is not the case.
Thank you for the tip. We did stop and check all connections to make sure we were not shorting anywhere and everything looked good. We will check again when we meet up this evening.
 


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