Operator Interface Troubleshooting

[DavidGitz]

Ok so we are having some problems with our 2007 'bot. We had removed our scoring mechanism to leave us just with our drive-train and electronics board. When trying to power up and drive the 'bot, we don't get any control for any input. We downloaded the default camera bells and whistles, and for the life of me I can't get any thing to respond to a control. I inserted pwm1=p1_y; into the user_routines.c in the normal place and hooked it up to one of our cam servo's, and it won't do anything. We are able to download the hex file successfully and get all 5 green lights on the OI. We don't have our TTL chip anymore (need to buy one again from IFI) or the 7.2 V battery but as far as I know we should still be able to do something, like control a motor. I believe that driving a servo without the 7.2 V battery won't work, but we tried a lot of other configurations in the code, like made pwm13=p1_x; to make the left drive motor respond only to the x-axis and it won't do anything. We get all flashing orange lights on the victor's but the cables seem to be in all the way, we had to cut the plastic connector down to the right sizing before and they worked before fine, we are just having problems with the same setup now. Anybody have any ideas? Very annoying problem.