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Unread 02-04-2011, 17:07
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Re: Possible FLR Hacking? Field control drop outs and

Robot Dlink dropouts can cause this.
The FTA's are not looking for this during the came. You will see them going over to the driver's control panel when the interruption is long enough. They have no log on their side which would show them.
Do not assume any diagnostics on their part except when they are only testing one robot during the new field control inspection test. Even then they can only diagnose to a very limited extent when a problem does arise, such as having the robot's Dlink visible, but not achieving two way communications.
Any robot which has only 10 volts is completely unpredicible and by far the most common problem. The second is intermittant dropouts of field control two way comms, Dlink itself losing power mementarily (which is why they gave us a new 12v-5v voltage control this year), after that you can have dropouts of the CAN, CAN2 or jaguars themselves. Each time this happens the systems come back one at a time and you're actually lucky if there's a clean re-start within 90 seconds.
Don't waste a single minute worrying about sabotage.
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