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Re: "Allocating channel or module that is out of range"

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Watch out for a difference in numbering systems this year. It's not the cRIO "slot" that's important to the code. The "module number" is going to be 1 for the first Analog module (in slot 1), the first Digital module (in slot 2), and the [optional] first Solenoid module (in slot 3). On a 4-slot cRIO-II, the [optional] module in slot 4 is number 2; on an 8-slot cRIO, the [optional] modules in slots 5-7 are number 2.
Excellent, we will try that at our next opportunity. Do you know where the documentation is for that change?

Edit: Found it. We had glossed over the "setting up the control system" section because it said veteran teams were probably good to go with an old robot.

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