pic: 1538 Wiring 2/4/2013

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24-03-2013, 23:24

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Re: pic: 1538 Wiring 2/4/2013

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Originally Posted by connor.worley

We've never had a cable fail.

Doesn't mean they won't. On our practice robot we had a PWM short to 12 volts and it caught fire. It killed a victor, the PWM and the sidecar. Had our PWMs not been labeled a 5 minutes swap could have taken a very long time

Edit:Moral of the story: Label everything! Especially the little cables to festos. When you have 6 festos and 2 breakouts things get real hairy real fast if they aren't labeled

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