Digital Sidecar problem

[Booksy]

I forgot about this, it fixed itself though... thanks anyway. I have no idea with the electronics this year sometimes. They just stop working for no apparent reason, and they fix themselves... It's weird.

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by Booksy

I forgot about this, it fixed itself though... thanks anyway. I have no idea with the electronics this year sometimes. They just stop working for no apparent reason, and they fix themselves... It's weird.

There are a lot of protection methods in the electronics this year that have the "It doesn't work but at least it isn't broken" feature.

For example, all of the power supplies will shut down if they are shorted out, rather than roast themselves. I've heard of several "incidents" where a dynamic short on the DSC's 5V rail will sporadically kill the motors.

When a supply goes into this fail safe it doesn't push enough current to smoke things, so it looks perfectly fine - and also perfectly broken. Hopefully the LEDs help with this.

Worse, some are protected by thermal devices, so it will take 5-15 seconds to "heal".