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Originally Posted by Gregor

Most teams were already beyond using spikes to control their solenoids, they were doing it via to solenoid breakout on the cRio. Forcing teams to go back to spikes would have been a step backwards.

I've never really looked at it that way - but I guess this makes a lot of sense now. We have never used the solenoid breakout because of our supply of 12V solenoids - the only 24V ones were the stuff we got in various KOPs or PDVs. We never really considered the solenoid breakout a progression away from Spike relays...but I guess if you had been doing it that way, the going back to Spikes would be a backward step. I am excited now.