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Unread 05-04-2011, 21:47
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Robot Power Issues
During our competition at the 10,000 lakes regional, we experienced power issues only during the final rounds, after taking a heavy hit. We did notice that the signal light went out once, and we lost total control both times it stopped. During one of the outages a FMS guys told us our cRIO had been rebooting. Also during the same outage, the camera cycled power. The first time the power cut out, we regained control after a few seconds. (YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m0em...el_video_title @1:22)The time the cRIO rebooted, we never regained control.

We brainstormed some and have some possible explanations for the outage, including main power cables, power board, and crio power connector/cable. If anybody has any ideas, feel free to post them.

Thanks,
Josh -967