Power Distributor flashing and ticking

[ohdan56]

At the site on the power distributor where we have a connection to one of our Jaguar MC, the board flashes red and it makes a ticking sound. There is not any power delivered to the Jaguar, as it is not lit up at all. Please advise on the cause of this problem and how we can address it. Thank you!

[Keyreaper]

Do you have a current breaker for that line you are trying to power? They look like huge black fuses that say 40A, 30A, and 20A on the top of them in big numbers and letters.

[ohdan56]

Originally Posted by Keyreaper

Do you have a current breaker for that line you are trying to power? They look like huge black fuses that say 40A, 30A, and 20A on the top of them in big numbers and letters.

Yes, we have a 40A breaker in that line. We do currently have three other Jaguars functioning properly. So we suspect that a Jag is shot, but hope not Thanks.

[MagiChau]

It sounds like you have faulty wiring overdrawing and tripping a breaker.

[ohdan56]

Originally Posted by MagiChau

It sounds like you have faulty wiring overdrawing and tripping a breaker.

Any tell tale signs of faulty wiring? The four Jags were all wired together using the same schematic and material so we are confused. LOL cheers, thanks.

[Jon Stratis]

The red light under the WAGO connector on the PDB is an indication of a short. The ticking sound you describe is likely the circuit breaker resetting itself after tripping from the short.

It could be a bad Jaguar (for example, metal debris caught inside the jaguar shorting things out), or it could be bad wiring.

[tsaksa]

Try unplugging all the circuit breakers and powering up the system again. All should be quiet. Then plug the breakers back in one by one until you discover which branch circuits are causing the problem and unplug them immediately. Power the system back down and then check the wiring carefully on any branch circuits that resulted in a problem. Look carefully for reversed connections (input for output) or reversed polarity (positive for negative). Look for the raised markings on the plastic. Do not trust the wire color or screw colors as they may have inadvertently got swapped.

[Alan Anderson]

The red light on the Power Distribution Board comes on to tell you there's something connected to the Wago terminals, but the breaker is either missing or tripped. The clicking is definitely the breaker tripping and resetting. I expect the breaker gets rather warm when this is happening.

Double- and triple-check the connections to the Jaguar. If nothing looks wrong, my suggestion is for you to remove the wiring on that branch and replace it along with the Jaguar itself. It's only two wires, right?

[Toa Circuit]

Is the red light the one underneath the wires to the Jag? Im pretty sure this in effect means you've wired the voltage in to the voltage out on the Jaguar. You should fix that. Either that, or you wired the jag backwards (I think the breaker does that when that happens).
If it is the former, the Jag should be fine. If it is the latter, its not fine.

[Timz3082]

I would check and make sure that the jaguar isn't powered through the Motor side, check and make sure that the supply goes to the side marked with V+ and V-<<< not M+ and M-. My team hooked it up wrong on one of the jags, luckily it didn't damage anything.

[Glitch_94]

Originally Posted by Toa Circuit

Is the red light the one underneath the wires to the Jag? Im pretty sure this in effect means you've wired the voltage in to the voltage out on the Jaguar. You should fix that. Either that, or you wired the jag backwards (I think the breaker does that when that happens).
If it is the former, the Jag should be fine. If it is the latter, its not fine.

This is what happened when one of our new wirers wired up the kitbot, it sounds like this is what's happening with you guys.