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Re: Main breaker tripping, dead CIM

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
It seems with our gearing/wheel COF/weight we're right at the boundary of what's operable. Does anyone have any advice (other than ditching a bunch of weight and cleaning out the gearboxes) for ensuring we're not tripping our breaker at worlds?
You could try implementing a voltage ramp in software. We did this in-between Central Illinois & St. Louis and never had another issue.

We did some testing on our practice drive at our school and found we were able to force the robot's radio or CRIO to reboot using 6 full sized CIMs geared similarly to what you described. Once we implemented the voltage ramp the problem was solved and we couldn't re-create the symptoms.
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