[Ian Curtis]

We originally had some suspect cables, these have all been replaced and no amount of jiggling or tugging can cause this fault in the pit. Additionally, artificial vibration in the pit (read: whacking robot with a hammer) cannot replicate this failure.

We replaced the 2CAN today, and still experienced the fault. [just read the comment from 1736... doh!] We have tried powering the 2CAN from both the regulated 12V and 24V regulated sources, and still experienced the fault. I have a hard time believing it is current related, as we have done plenty of high current maneuvering on our practice field without observing it. Additionally, the drivers seem to be reversing direction no problem on the competition field.

At this point we are very good friends with the CSAs. I know there have been some weird fringe electrical issues in the past with the 120 amp breakers doing weird things, and with bad PDBs, but I assume I'll be saying "DOH! Can't believe we missed that!!" when this is all over.

We played lots of back to back matches today, so tomorrow we are changing our cabling such that if we lose the 2CAN the cRio will still be able to talk to the field. As Don said, I don't think we'll get much additional information out of this -- if the cRio was losing power we'd be dead in the water for a long time.