When my team plugged in our V5 motors to the cortex and ran our program, we noticed that one of the motors on our base wasn’t working. So we checked the code and that was fine. But then we noticed that the red light on the motor was not glowing when the wire was plugged in. Would this be an issue with the motor, wire, or the brain? The motor was working a couple of days ago.
I have a similar issue with our lift motor getting pulled out just a little bit so the brain doesn’t think the motor is disconnected, but the red light is off (or flickering) and the motor doesn’t function. In our case we suspect the motor since we tried working wires and this was all only after we replaced the motor for what is on now.
We recently tried to replace the wire and the light still did not light up. I think it might be the motor.
I have had a couple cables that were part of the kit that did this if you flexed them some on the one end. Turned out for me to just be bad cables and not the motor.