My school’s teams have been having problems with the ports randomly stopping working. We think it is because the cortex sends more energy then the brain can handle killing the port. None of us really know how to code in pros so we are using V5 Blocks. Is there anyway we can fix this in the blocks or…

it is tucked well-inside the chassis - I would suspect about 2". Has steel on 5 sides - almost like a Faraday cage. I know this doesn’t prevent the cables from picking up static but honestly these ports died when there wasn’t much movement. Plus being in the south the humidity is still pretty h…

Thanks - we suspected this was like the Cortex and did this - I have to look closely but it looks like individual ports are dying FWIW - we only have 5 motors

It is about three - four inches

I have 8 ports burned out in our V5 and it sucks because we want to get a replacement, but we don’t have hope that we will be able to get it before the competition is over.

[image] Team_55550W: ave hope that we will be able to get it befor I’m sorry about that last year we had to use V4 for one of our teams. Good luck with an replacement.

wow - 8 ports!?! Guess i can’t complain! maybe you can coordinate w/VEX Tech support over the Christmas Break! They seem very responsive So ‘static’ or shorted cables are the only known culprits?

Had ports short out multiple times, oddly only kept happening to the same intake motor. Knew it wasn’t the programming considering the 2 intake motors were programmed the same way. Initially tried changing the port with new cables. After the 3rd time we replaced the motor and haven’t had issues sinc…

VEX Tech Support is very hesitant to acknowledge static as a cause of damaged ports and motors. While you should definitely contact them, be careful of this. So far this season, I’ve lost 8 ports and 3 motors. During this time, I’ve done quite a few experiments and research with the brain. Ground…

I’ve seen a few mentions of static frying the ports. That is likely a key role on why they burnout. I know I’ve static shocked a few of my V5 ports now.

[image] SaltyCB: From what i can tell it has 4 quadrants with 5 ports each I’ve seen this rumor a couple of times now. There are 4 connectors, each with five ports, but other than that all ports are equal and do not share anything. You do not need to spread out motors in the way we had to w…

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jpearman December 10, 2019, 11:36pm 31

They are not connected to ground.

Help! Frying Cortex's, don't know why