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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
Pre match wiggle your alliance partners cables around JUST DO IT. If they tell you they lost comms one match do it more. If they blame it on a field fault but, there was not a replay it was not a field fault it was them.
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I've watched about 130 matches from the side of the field this year. None of them were replayed due to communications-related field faults.
Nothing is certain, but so far in 2016 robot communication problems => problem is on robot.
Things I've seen that cause "communication issues":
* loose wires at breaker
* loose wires at battery terminals
* radio barrel connector came out
* radio wire at robot came loose
* tinned wire on radio connector at robot broke off
* forgot to reconnect Ethernet cable
* something bumped the red button on the circuit breaker
* loose fuses in PDP
Things I haven't seen:
* dodgy Anderson connector (others have seen this)
* loose wires at PDP