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Re: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Sounds to me like you are not.powering the roborio from the correct the location. It's sounds like you may have it running through one of the non regulated pdp ports.

There are no ports on the PDP that are regulated. The VRM has SEPIC regulated outputs. If you are getting frequent brown outs the most likely culprit is a poor connection somewhere between the battery and PDP. Scrutinize all of your connections and use the drivers station logs to determine current draw of each channel on the PDP and system voltage during high current periods. I found this to be to most effective way to root out wiring/brownout issues.
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