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Re: What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

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Originally Posted by Damiaen_Florian View Post
When we E-stopped it the robot was still moving all around the field, and even after the match ended it was still going! The FTA (or maybe it was a ref I forget) had to run out onto the field and chase the robot and manually shut it off, it was something they said they've never seen before
I haven't personally seen anything like that... but I have heard stories of it happening. 330, at IRI, in 2002, had that in at least a couple of matches, something about the batteries being heat-damaged so they wouldn't hold a charge properly--then the controller didn't get enough power to detect the E-stop! (Two years later, backup batteries for the Robot Controller were introduced.)
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