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Chi,
If it would help, I can come down to the school one afternoon and talk with the team. Check with your teacher and let me know via PM and we can try to set something up. I can get to your location usually by 3 PM.

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Looks are deceiving!! Trust me I'm a senior who has lead electronics for 3 out of my four years, and just because it looks like everything is running fine, if something heats up or reaches a stress point it could mess up all of your electronics. I had a mishap yesterday and blew out a terminal in the power distribution board because a limit switch broke and caused the motor to bind. I changed out the entire board, talon, motor, connectors, and Pwm. You are better off making a plan mentally and on paper on what you must do as soon as you get to competition, plus 95% of teams will be willing to assist you! Keep your head up, and good luck.

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110% Gracious Professionalism :)

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My team finds it helpful to blow out our electronics board with compressed air any time the robot has been in the shop or been worked on mechanically for a decent period of time. You may want to adopt that habit in the future if possible.

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Be very careful using compressed air to blow out electronics... it can easily send metal chips flying (which is kind of the point), and some could end up in people's eyes!

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Or just as bad, force the chips into places you really don't want them, like bearings and electronics.