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Unread 30-03-2012, 14:27
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Re: Is our cRIO toast?

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Originally Posted by PayneTrain View Post
It was some muttering from the programmers about how the draw from jaguars while the robot was driving probably cause the cRIO to go out of control.

Seeing as I just wire the board together for them with some juniors and check over the boards (the mentor and I never found a problem with it), that's what they went for. However, it could have just been any one bad component causing some vicious chain reaction.

I do remember a hastened backup plan to do a demonstration at a public event and a lot of salty words more vividly than the root of the problem we had to solve... oh well :/
I don't think it is possible for the code to force excess current to go through the cRIO. The PD block controls all of that...