2015 Control System Frying Victors

[icecube45]

So, turns out we were just unlucky...

We put on a fourth victor, and after using combinations of the pdp and pdb, we trusted it enough to hook everything up.

It worked fine..

I guess all we've learned from this is:

it's the mechanical team's fault.

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by icecube45

So, turns out we were just unlucky...

We put on a fourth victor, and after using combinations of the pdp and pdb, we trusted it enough to hook everything up.

It worked fine..

I guess all we've learned from this is:

it's the mechanical team's fault.

So did you find out what the actual problem was though, so you can avoid it in the future? (Or maybe help any other teams reading who might have the same problem?)

I'm assuming it was inverted polarity?

[John Retkowski]

it's the mechanical team's fault.

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

So did you find out what the actual problem was though, so you can avoid it in the future? (Or maybe help any other teams reading who might have the same problem?)

I'm assuming it was inverted polarity?

It was obviously all the code weighing down on the victor fan causing the victor to over heat and get a nice crispy golden brown color all over.

It's always the programmers fault.

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by John Retkowski

It was obviously all the code weighing down on the victor fan causing the victor to over heat and get a nice crispy golden brown color all over.

It's always the programmers fault.

We're overweight! Quick, delete some code!

It's always the co-captain's fault.

[icecube45]

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

So did you find out what the actual problem was though, so you can avoid it in the future? (Or maybe help any other teams reading who might have the same problem?)

I'm assuming it was inverted polarity?

It was not inverted polarity...

We just had 3 unlucky victors in a row
(see: mechanical people stupidly drilling over electronics)

[tStano]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

The Digital Sidecar output 6V on the center pin when the servo jumper was installed. It was disconnected when the servo jumper was not installed. The roboRIO does output 6v all the time on the center pin. However, all FRC legal speed controllers have the center pin disconnected, so it doesn't matter what the roboRIO outputs.

Thanks! I didn't know that, and was wondering how that worked.