Spazing Robot

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by Matthew_H

We had a problem with our robot spazing after only 30 sec of driving. We went thru our robot and found that we had wired the small fans on the Victors directly to the power side of the Victors. When we rewired the fans to go to thier own circuit the spazing stopped. Can anyone else confirm this or has any other team had this problem?

Could be that you're pulling too much current through the speed controllers' circuit breakers, and tripping the fans in the process. That leads to ineffective cooling, which could make the speed controllers unhappy, leading to what I've affectionately named the "Robot-Not-So-Happy" Dance. We had problems like that last year, we tried rewiring the fans, and no problems so far (unless someone knocks the fan cable out...).