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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
One more thing: It was a little ridiculous to still see teams losing comms and stop moving at this event. It seemed to even happen in eliminations, aside from the issues 1676 already mentioned with their robot. Were the lost comms for other teams determined to be field related or robot related?
Where was this field from? Was it NYC/CT? Internal MAR field? Rutgers field?
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The field was not the "MAR Field" and I believe the same one as Rutgers (Chestnut Hill had the MAR field that week).
From what I heard from some of the Field Crew, at least 2 of the Elim issues were bad batteries, and at least 1 was watchdog. Remember to have several batteries fully charged before Elims, because the matches come fast.
Since Fridays are a slow day for RI, I usually try to watch for robot control issues (not limited to "dead bots", including mechanism malfunctions) and provide in pit advice. Most of what I saw was cut and dry cRIO and Radio reboots. Reminder: secure those radio power cables with tape or ties, it was not rated for going over the bump
