We cannot get the indicator lights on our jaguars to turn solid. All the indicator lights on our dashboard are green, and all the other lights on our board are behaving normally. We are using the default LabVIEW code on the cRIO and we are relatively sure we have wired the board correctly. When we move the joystick, the driver station shows the bars indicating the PWM ports moving, but a multimeter doesn’t detect any electrical current being sent to the motor.
What could be causing our problems? When do the jaguar lights go solid?
The Jaguar goes solid yellow when it’s receiving a PWM signal that tells it to apply no power to the motor. It goes solid green when the PWM signal tells it to apply full power in one direction, and solid red when the PWM signal tells it to apply full power in the other direction.
If you’re not getting a solid yellow when you enable the robot, you need to double-check a couple of things. First, double-check that you have the PWM cable connected properly. One end goes into the Jaguar; the other goes to the Digital Sidecar. Second, make sure that the Digital Sidecar has power and a correct connection to the cRIO digital module that your program is controlling – and that the cRIO is in the slot the program expects it to be in.