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Originally Posted by Sean Raia
I'm a bit worried that many people are writing this off as an "oh its cause they didn't test Einstein" issue. Really? Did you hear about 1717's issues in their division?
The problem here is deeper. These issues persist on many FRC fields and this needs to change.
Ultimately the firmware and hardware we are given by FIRST needs to be built tougher and respond more reliably.
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I agree! There were problems all season and I've heard reports of problems on all of the fields at CMP. However, the problems were worse on Einstein.
So what is different about Einstein that might explain things?
A few have been identified. More spectators means more texting, wifi, etc. The field was untested. The spectacle was greater with more lights, etc. The storm rolled in.
One wayt to troubleshoot is to take a list and add anything else that you can think of and then eliminate them one at a time. I'm sure each of us have our favorite theory of what was the cause.
Just to plug for mine, the problem appears to be intermittent, tends to affect teams with lots of comms back and forth to their staion, and tends to happen during elims when the fans are paying attention and using their cell phones and wifi tethering a lot. Therefore, I think it is radio interference from a combination of sources. If that is correct, then this is going to be very hard to pin down concretely, but realtively easy to fix. A different radio or frequency could fix the problem.