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Re: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power

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Originally Posted by ImOn3618 View Post
We're wired the same way as https://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s...m#!prettyPhoto
this. Which is correct.
There is no disagreement. That picture matches the way I described it.

However, it doesn't match the way you described it. You said you had your roboRIO wired to "the same rail as the VRM and PCM(which we don't have)". While both the VRM/PCM power and the roboRIO power connections are ultimately connected to the battery+ connection of the PDP, they are separately fused. Robot rule <R42> requires that the roboRIO power is connected to the terminals specifically labeled for it, and <R44> separately prohibits it from being connected to the VRM/PCM power terminals.