Motors dying for no reason

[DanTheMan]

A torque motor on our robot’s 4 bar just died. When we plug it in and go to devices the brain does not recognize a motor is plugged in. We switched wires and ports and those didn’t fix it.

This also happened with a standard motor on our drive train.

What is causing this, I’ve never had this happen before not even with a punchbar we built for change up which required way more power than either of these motors.

[Cardboard_Box_Man]

Are your floor tiles anti-static? You could be frying your motor ports by accident if static electricity builds up.

[DodgeDoodle_41442A]

V5 ESD Protection Board Revision 3 (Save your V5 Ports!)

Dear VEX Community, With V5 brains and motors in an extreme shortage, the BLRS Electronics Team has created a new revision for our V5 ESD Protection Board to protect both motors and ports from dying. Although not competition legal, we highly encourage other teams to also start using this board to prevent themselves from being taken out of the competition due to something completely out of their control. Learn more about ESD protection and ESD in general on the board’s release page. Our design …

[QuickFang]

The motor could just be going bad or the anti-static theory @Cardboard_Box_Man but you may want to replace it if that is happening also take @DodgeDoodle_41442A advice for the v5 port protection as if bad ports are the actual cause then saving up is imperative.