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Re: Robot Power Issues
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Originally Posted by Liz Smith View Post
In that particular YouTube video that you posted I can say that I don't think you ever fully lost power, or wireless communications...

I can tell because the green light on the scoring table stayed green the entire time (save for one second where the ref walked between the light and the camera taking video), which tells me that all the robots on the field were still connected. If your CRio reboots, you will show a loss of communication with the field and that light would change color. How that helps? I'm not sure, but it could point to two completely separate non-related issues.

Any video of the other match?
This video showed what happened the first time, only a short loss of communication. The second time, one of the FMS people came over and told us that our cRIO had rebooted.

One more thing, our cRIO and D-link AP power converter are plugged into the 24v plug-in on the power board. I don't think we are pulling to much current through that connector, because we never had any problems through qualification and elimination rounds. We'll be checking all connections at St. Louis to see if we can find anything obvious. A short could be a very possible thing after we got hit during the round.