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Re: Field Electronics

No, I was not representing anyone but my team when I contacted RA. I have no idea what the proper channels are to gain access to this sort of information. Plus trying to get information like that is not in the spirit of FIRST, if someone were to come and tell me "Your not supposed to have this informationThe PLC unit uses a program developed by RA engineers. The Cisco AP is being used for its exact purpose on the field, and so are the IO units. So the only piece of software I am missing yet it the PLC program.

I have looked into the Mike Wade field, it really looks interesting. But it seems that it would not be very different than our plans. And again all we are doing right now is planning. We are trying to get a feel about how hard this will be. We are trying to tackle all of the hard parts first, the biggest being the electronics to determine if its even possible to do what we want to do.