Failed Benchtop test

[awizkid]

does your digital sidecar have power? when we first set up ours we forgot to power it, without the digital sidecar being powered it cant recieve the signal from the module and can't sent out a pwm signal.

[rhoads2234]

Originally Posted by awizkid

does your digital sidecar have power? when we first set up ours we forgot to power it, without the digital sidecar being powered it cant recieve the signal from the module and can't sent out a pwm signal.

Yes the digital sidecar has power, all three lights(5V,6V and the one that says BAT) come on. Every other indicator that the board has that is mentioned in the Benchtop test documentation comes on.

We think there may be something wrong with cRIO. We have tried using other crossover cables to see if the cable itself was the problem, but it still won't connect to anything.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by rhoads2234

We think there may be something wrong with cRIO. We have tried using other crossover cables to see if the cable itself was the problem, but it still won't connect to anything.

Crossover cable? You should only use that to connect the camera to the cRIO's second ethernet port. All the other ethernet cables you use should be standard straight-through connections.

[Delia]

Hey Erin you should see if you guys can come to LM this saturday, our Lockheed guys can help you out.

Facebook me about it.

[Christine2234]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Crossover cable? You should only use that to connect the camera to the cRIO's second ethernet port. All the other ethernet cables you use should be standard straight-through connections.

We've tried with straight up Ethernet cables, too, and still nothing.

We're located in Newtown Square, and I think that's around 2 hours from where 103 is...we might try calling an NI engineer and asking if it's a problem with the cRIO itself.

[crake]

Please go ahead and contact NI through ni.com/first.

[awizkid]

did you use the victors, that you are ussing, in prevouis years. The last 2 years we had to reset the victors before they would work for us. To reset:
(1)make sure all power is off, so either diconnect the battery or manualy trip the main circuit breaker.
(2) ther is a little hole on the victors, there is a little switch inside. get something small that can fit in the hole.
(3) hold the switch down, and while still holding it down, turn on the power. the victor light should be a solid color.
(4)keep holding down the button in tell it starts flashing.
(5)to test if it worked: turn on and connect the driver station and the light on the victor should be a solid yellow when everything else is set up right.

PS: make susre you have the pwm cables pluged in the rght direction. The white part of the cable should be plugged into the signal side of the port.

[GregW11]

Here's a random thought: make sure only ONE of the serial-like cables (going from the cRIO to the power distribution) is connected to the cRIO. I had similar problems but when that was disconnected it worked perfectly fine. Obviously make sure the one connected is going to the power distribution that has the wire in it (hooked up in the first signal slot)

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by GregW11

Here's a random thought: make sure only ONE of the serial-like cables (going from the cRIO to the power distribution) is connected to the cRIO. I had similar problems but when that was disconnected it worked perfectly fine. Obviously make sure the one connected is going to the power distribution that has the wire in it (hooked up in the first signal slot)

The only connection from the cRIO to the Power Distribution is the 24 volt power (plus 12 volts to each of the Solenoid and Analog Breakouts).

Do you mean the 39-pin cable used to connect a cRIO 9403 digital I/O module to a Digital Sidecar?

[Christine2234]

Thanks for everyone's help! We've finally figured it out; we had to set the IP address of our Ethernet port on the laptop and then Image the cRIO to set the IP on the cRIO itself. For anyone else who has this problem, what we did was:

1. Disable all other connections (internet, etc)
2. Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections
3. Doubleclick Local Area Connections
4. Click Properties
5. Scroll Down in the windown and double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
6. Click Use the following IP address and set the IP Address to 10.xx.yy.6 where xxyy is your team number
7. Set the Subnet Mask to 255.0.0.0 and click OK
8. Open up the FRC cRIO Imaging Tool and check Format Controller
9. Set the Team ID to your Team number (xxyy)
10. Let it image - this should take a while

[rhoads2234]

Thank you to everyone who posted a suggestion.
We got it to work at last by setting the IP address. (I will get the teammate who did it to post a more detailed discription)

Good luck with the rest of build season!!