[ksafin]

Pretty much everything you need to know has been mentioned.

However, I feel the need to tell a story of what happened to us at the South Florida regional due to electrical problems (a simple problem you should avoid).

For whatever reason... someone plugged our digital sidecar into the 5V slot on the power distribution board.

Under this condition, some motors would turn on while others wouldn't, or at least, two-some motors would work at once but no more. 5V was enough to turn on two motors at a low speed, so we never even thought there was a power-related problem because.. after all, the motors were turning on.

All the lights on the digital sidecar turned on too (5V & 6V, etc).

It was as if a ghost was inside our digital sidecar. We ended up swapping out our motor controllers, tossing victors into a box, swapping out the cRIO, changing hundreds of lines of code... all to no avail. Until an inspector looked at our power distribution board and gave us a facepalm expression as he noticed it was plugged into 5V.

Moral of the story, double check your power connections. DS goes in 12V haha.