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Re: 2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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Originally Posted by Jared View Post
If you use a 20 amp not resetting fuse, as shown in the picture and the robot's battery is a little low, it trips when the compressor starts, leaving your robot without a compressor in the middle of the match. It's happened to me before.

The people who make this know this (as the manual has an exception for this), so either I'm not understanding how this works, or their will be issues with the fuse getting blown during matches. I'm betting that I don't understand how this works, and was wondering if somebody who actually has the part knows how it would work.
This was exactly our concern when we sat down to wire it up the first time. Fortunately, the PCM is monitoring the current on the compressor and each of the solenoid channels and will disable the channel temporarily if then current is too high. I have not heard of a blown fuse on the PCM yet.
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