V5 Brain Ports Stop Working

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If your pins are bent in, look at this post to see how you might be able to fix them.

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…

I’ve been able to bring back a ton of ports that were previously flaky by bending the pins back up. I have paper clip that I’ve bent into a shape that is advantageous for this specific use case and it works great. I’ll try to grab a picture when I’m next in the lab.