Electrical CheckList

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Simple question I hope, how do you check that everything is grounded correctly?

Take a multimeter set to continuity and touch one end to the negative of the power distribution board and the other end to the negative of your jaguars, spikes, victors, etc. If it beeps you are grounded correctly, next repeat with the first end touching a piece of metal on your robot, it should not beep this time.

[EricVanWyk]

I like to divide checklists like this into "stuff I have to do before applying power" and "stuff I'll find faster by watching it fail".

For example: errors in the high power wiring can result in damage, but forgetting a jumper on the DSC will just prevent that servo from running.

[McGurky]

This would be more of a chacklist that every the electronics is tampered with or worked on, to run through this list to be sure that nothing will get fried on powerup