Motors disconnecting

[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…