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Unread 11-03-2013, 20:06
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Re: THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta View Post
Our spinning was due to a failed battery. We had 2 separate instances in elims where batteries showed 13 volts on the charger and dropped to 6 volts within seconds during autonomous.
Our team had a problem like that this year - except it wasn't a failed battery. The robot took a hit in an earlier match which made the DC connector on the AXIS camera touch the metal on the back of the camera (which is metal. Doh!) The back of the camera was touching the frame which caused some fun grounding issues. The driver station was showing the battery around 7V.

Fortunately, Rob the head robot inspector, saw this once before with an AXIS camera and was able to point this out to us.
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