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Re: Check your Anderson battery connectors

Thanks for the information Alan, I'll say that it was the last thing we considered checking. We even started pounding on the robot with a rubber mallet and dropping the robot from 6 inches off the ground to replicate the problem. loose battery connection was actually common with my all girls team (they don't tend to have the hand/arm strength to get it really tight. so it was the first thing we checked. but we were literally able to poke with a finger on the red wire right outside the Anderson housing on the robot side and see the robot reset. We also confirmed that the connector was fully snapped into the detent. like I said, the goal is to get the information out there, not necessarily placing blame as there could be many reasons that failed. but it was hard to troubleshoot so would like people to be aware that it is a potential thing to check.
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