Hi, my team are using ports 1 and 10 for 2 of our mecanum wheels, however they arent working. The motors buzz, and if we switch motors to another port it works. We tested ports 1 & 10 on a nee cortex, and it worked so we swapped them. Now we have the same issues. If the ports are broken can you tell me why and if they are permanent? Thanks
Have you checked your code? That may not be the problem, but it is always a good thing to be thorough while looking for what causes a problem.
ports 1 and 10 both have internal motor controllers. Yours are probably burnt out. This happens to a lot of cortex’s as soon as the first year of use. Make sure you are using 2 wire motors without a motor controler. If you want to use 10 motors and 1 and 10 are out, y cable off of other ports with motors that always spin together.
If it the probably is happening on both of the cortexs you tried, it’s most likely your program. Post your code using the CODE (“</>” button) tags.
The second cortex was brand new, and i dont think its the program because the motors buzz when you press corresponding buttons on the joystick, if not it doesnt. I am using the 2 wire connectors. Also can i y cable motors that are reversed from one another?
Yes. You’d do this by reversing the polarity for one of the motors, which is just reversing one of the two-wire connectors. When you connect the two-wire end of the motor controller (or two-wire extension) to a 2-wire motor, connect the wires so that they are backwards: rather than red meeting red, make it so that red meets black and black meets red.