[aphelps231]

This should be noted too: check all of your connections! For motors and pneumatics especially.

We unbagged our competition robot and were wiring up some electrical components, when we barely spotted a wire through the gap between two CIMs that had completely come out of an Anderson connector. Even worse was that it was for one of our drive CIMs. We had played through an entire district off of three motors! Good PID is both a blessing and a curse I guess...

Similarly in 2014 we learned that pneumatic tubes should be checked for a complete fit into ther fittings/connectors. Our pneumatic catapult experienced some issues in the semifinal matches of our second district event, which caused us to lose both matches. We didn't figure out it was a pneumatic connection that was loose until it blew completely out of the fitting during our second semifinal match. If you take a sharpie and draw a line around the hose right by the connector to display where it should sit in the connector you can easily check for this issue by simply looking.