[Joe Johnson]

Can we all agree that the FIRST control system, while each change seemed to make sense at the time, had morphed into something that has cross over the line if sanity?

I am quite serious.

FIRST should really think things through from start to finish.

I know that it is unlikely that the CRIO is going anywhere soon, but that doesn't mean that we have to keep everything else.

If I were king, I think I'd look hard at a PDBoard that was 3-4" thick, essentially nothing but relays, FET and fins, hermetically sealed with a brain to do the switching, a big fat battery connection for current going in, a bunch of smaller (Non Wago please) connections where the current goes out to the motors.

I think it makes a ton of sense.

Joe J.