[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Let this be a lesson to drive your bot hard before shipping to find problems (or as we call it Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat! ).

That is the only part that doesn't make sense to me about the "simply too much power" theory.

We drove this thing HARD for 10 days prior to ship. For far longer than 2 minutes at a time. With brand-new, not run-in gearboxes. With brand new treads, and with an even faster gearing on our arm (I remember the FP getting HOT to the touch during practice - we increased the reduction in our competition bot so that it barely gets warm to the touch now).

All the math, intuition, and experience says that the problem is drawing too much current. But I can't figure out why, for the life of me, we didn't have any problems until midway through the regional.