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Re: Drive Motors turning off then losing signal

I'm almost postive we have that plugged in. It might not be the right voltage though, I'll check on monday.
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Re: Drive Motors turning off then losing signal

Grab a spare Jag from somewhere, power it, and plug in a PWM. If it functions properly, you've got 2 bad jags. We had the same problem not long ago, and thought we were going crazy because we replaced a bad jag with another bad jag.

3rd times the charm.

You can easily check if the motors are fighting each other by disconnecting one of the PWMs and running the other.
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Re: Drive Motors turning off then losing signal

The symptoms point perfectly to the Digital Sidecar not receiving battery power. Make sure you've got its power input wired to a 20-amp circuit on the Power Distribution Board.
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Re: Drive Motors turning off then losing signal

Yeah, sorry for not coming back and answering! It turns out we did not have the power coming from the right source! Found a handy wiring guide that I cannot believe we did not have before.

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