Motors disconnecting

[Viveksao]

Hi there, my team has been experiencing some problems relating to our motors disconnecting from our brain. Our motors have been constantly disconnecting from our robot, effecting our robots performance. We have already changed out our wires and replaced them with brand new ones. I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations on how to solve our issue. Thanks.

[jpearman]

perhaps damaged smartports (ie. bent pins)

Thought we had dead ports from ESD... Prong were just bent

Over the past few years I’ve had numerous teams tell me that a port on the brain had died. I had read so much about ESD damage that I always assumed it was the cause and would tell them to mark it as dead and reprogram for another port. Well I finally got around to checking our spare brains for dead ports that were never marked. I found some unmarked dead ports and quite a few with loose connection. The loose connections were being caused by the metal prongs inside of the brain’s RJ11 ports bei…

[jpearman]

@Viveksao @cookies_in_the_Jar @Team2715J @Team6215X
You are all posting from the same IP address. Just want to remind you all that we do not look favorably on ALT accounts (ie. the same user using different account names). Generally we will just delete all of them. So enough with the “me too” replies.

[Viveksao]

I am terribly sorry for this incident. I will ensure than none of our team members does something like this again.