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Re: [Ri3D] ‘Snow Problem presents Prometheus

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Originally Posted by Joey1939 View Post

I noticed blue tape over the extra ports on the roboRIO and PDP. Did you find this necessary for a certain reason?
We got a piece of Aluminum in it that shorted a PMW on the Athena (roboRIO) which caused the whole system not to run. Once we found that out we removed it and decided to tape over all the exposed pins to prevent that from happening. We taped over the PDP because metal shavings in there would be bad...
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