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Re: SoC Power

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Originally Posted by nuttle View Post
Could someone elaborate on the concern about safely shutting down? With the exception of in-flight writes to a hard drive or SSD (which would presumably not apply here), is there any actual problem with just yanking power at any time to any of these systems? Has anyone experienced this or come across any sort of warning to avoid doing this?
I'm with you on this one... If the coprocessor is being used for vision processing, simply turning it off really shouldn't have a negative effect on the system.

If you are datalogging, you would want to have that data stored before removing power. A simple watchdog could be initiated from the start of autonomous and end after the teleop period after a set time period of no signal from the cRIO.