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Re: 2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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Originally Posted by Joe Hershberger View Post
The change we made was to not disable the 3.3 V or 5 V supplies when we detect a brown-out condition (VbattIn < 6.8 V). This helps a bit for the 5 V to survive, but when the VbattIn drops to about 6.2 V, the 6 V servo supply is no longer able to stay active, so the 5 V and 3.3 V supplies drop out with a source voltage fault.
Bummer, thanks for the clarification. This just means that the 5V supply browns out, not the robotRIO's ability to read the digital inputs? I'm trying to figure out whether or not if we were to power the encoders another way, if that would fix it.
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