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Re: [Ri3D] ‘Snow Problem presents Prometheus

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Originally Posted by peirvine View Post
We got a piece of Aluminum in it that shorted a PMW on the 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...
I have a feeling that this will be something commonly seen at competitions, it is fairly easy for a piece of metal to fall into the PWM ports and cause a short. I know I will be encouraging teams I meet with to cover the open ports on their roboRIO.
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