I should preface this by saying that I am extremely new to VEX robotics, having only been introduced to it in my school’s technology class. I have found myself in quite a pickle. Our class competition is on Monday and I have been trying to add the final touches to our team’s robot. Unfortunately, one of the motors shorted the cortex causing it to smoke when I plugged it into ports 1 and 10 while also making those ports defunct.
I have been reading up on this issue through posts on this forum and have come to the tentative conclusion that ports 2 through 9 should still be functional. (Which seems to be the case through my later tests) However, I am still a bit worried that the short may have damaged other components of the cortex other than just frying ports 1 and 10. Is there any way I can 100% verify that the rest of the cortex is still safe for use? I have already emailed my teacher for a replacement cortex, however, that might not be guaranteed.
I took the cortex apart and snapped a photo of the internals. Can anyone give me a confirmation of whether I should continue testing my code on this cortex?
