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Re: COMM lost way to many times

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Originally Posted by Bruceb View Post
hot glue where?
We solder and heat shrink where we can, and hot glue everywhere else. So the connections to the Voltage Regulator are all hot glued. We were seeing all sorts of radio drops out just as you've described on both our comp and practice bots. Since hot gluing the radio wires into the voltage regulator we haven't lost comms. (~19 matches).

We use hot glue on nearly every connection, including our encoder cables, limit switches, arduino plugs, etc.

If you want something less permanent electrical tape tends to work well enough, but I haven't seen anything better than hot glue this year.
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