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Re: Victor Lights

Because of the plastic shield around the PWM port on the Speed Controller it's kinda hard to see if you made a complete connection so try pulling the cable out and put it back and that should solve your problem. I doubt it's a defective cable but if you strongly think otherwise try another cable and see what happens. Usually though it's just seated correctly. I've had to reseat a PWM cable into the SC at least 5 times before I got it right. Try bending one pin slightly so that it can guide the rest of the pins into the port. Also make sure that you are not off a pin on the RC side as well - it's just as easy to miss a pin on the RC as it is a hole of the SC.
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Re: Victor Lights

Yea we had the same problem with our cables in the first couple of weeks. The victors were blinking orange and we found out that 3 of our pwm cables were bad. We are just going to make our own pwm cables like last year. Since we have made them i dont think that we have had one problem with them.
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Re: Victor Lights

Try making sure it's not the pwm port on the RC either. We had one victor that wasn't working; originally we thought it was the cable, but we switched with a working cable and it worked fine. So then we flipped a cable with a different victor, and huzzah!, the blinking victor worked.

But now the other one didn't.

To us it appears that PWM 2 on our RC isn't working correctly.
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Re: Victor Lights

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Try making sure it's not the pwm port on the RC either. We had one victor that wasn't working; originally we thought it was the cable, but we switched with a working cable and it worked fine. So then we flipped a cable with a different victor, and huzzah!, the blinking victor worked.

But now the other one didn't.

To us it appears that PWM 2 on our RC isn't working correctly.
It may be the code, If you are running more than 2 motors, i sugesst recoding.
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