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Unread 04-04-2013, 21:04
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Re: FMS Differences with motor safety?

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Originally Posted by JefferMC View Post
In our "lab" using a practice robot, I would notice that at times the robot would become unresponsive. A few seconds later, the motor safety helper message would start on the console. I could close the SmartDashboard application, an error would appear on NetConsole and immediately the robot would recover and the messages would stop. Without SmartDashboard there was no such problem.
Yeah, there seem to be a lot of suspicious reports involving the SmartDashboard; I heard from a team or two at our regional that had to remove it to get a stable operation, and I recall seeing threads here that pointed suspicious fingers at it as well.

Cheers,

Jeremy
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