Thread: Failure of Robot Interface
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Unread 01-04-2003, 22:48
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Originally posted by Lindsey
Team 548 had the exact same problem at Great Lakes, our problems were solved when we tethered our robot and plugged the OI into the wall. I don't remember exactly but one of our electrical engineer explained the problem, something like there wasn't enough power to run the robot and the OI so the robot got first priority and the OI went below sufficient running voltage and kept reseting.

Hope this answerer the question if anyone wants a more detailed explanation let me know and I'll talk to the engineer.

Lindsey
We had our tether port toward the front of the robot, and while driving the 'bot on tether, a person stepped on the tether which yanked the tether port back and damaged it. After a few days, the tether port didn't work.

We had to send the robot controller back for repairs. In the meantime, Innovation FIRST upgraded our last year's robot controller to this year's specs for about $40, and we used it.
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