PCM Compressor Fault

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by DurT1178

What do you mean by adding connectors? Can you specify, please?

We used these.
http://www.ctr-electronics.com/cabli...le-16-awg.html

Makes a better holding connection in my opinion. I think we got ours from Digikey for a bit cheaper.

[DurT1178]

We finally figured it out today! Thanks a lot for your help! The problem was that the firmware was up to date, but it was corrupted. So all we had to do was update the firmware and it worked fine. (We also vacuumed off the PCM because the National Instruments Configuration kept saying it was a compressor short). Anyways we will probably take a look at those connectors because they look like they work a lot better than just plugging the wire straight in. Thanks again.

[vanjan14]

We had the same problem here on team 171. Turned out the wireless radio was creating interference on the CAN bus. We had the radio right next to the PCM and the power plug was parallel to the CAN connections.
Moved the radio to a location about 6" away and we are no longer having any problems.

Hope our pain helps some other teams out!