Victor-PWM Cable connections

[RbtGal1351]

Hello all,

I am wondering what fixes teams have come up with to ensure a good connection between the Victor Speed Controllers and its PWM Cable.

What happened: During the final rounds at Davis, one of our drive motor Victors started continually blinking orange (no signal). We traced the problem to a bad PWM cable connection. We did replace a fried Victor right before this problem occurred, so I would assume that our cables were just unseated during this process. We did, after this, make sure the PWM cables were plugged all the way in, which they were. I am wondering how the PWM cable does not make contact if it is all the way down (vertically).

Also, our victors are mounted on the bottom of our robot, so it would be rather unlikely for the cable to just "pop out" of the Victor seating, plus they are electrical taped in to avoid this very problem.

If the connections are so precarious to unseat and lose the connection that easily, how and why do they withstand competitive matches? Or don't they?

What have you come up with to solve this problem?

Thanks a bunch in advance,
~Stephanie

PS--Searched, these threads may be useful too:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...m+connec tion
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...m+connec tion