[MrRoboSteve]

Joe -- I helped a lot of teams with comm issues at week 1 and 2 events. In general, the robots I helped had a lack of care in wiring -- gobs of electrical tape, lack of strain relief, improperly stripped wire ends, loose connectors, etc. Electrical and programming on FRC robots the last thing on the task list for many teams, and gets shorted in the rush to get the robot into the bag.

If a team with this lack of care appears at the field at 7:50 PM on practice day, asking for their connection test, there's a decent chance you'll see those same numbers with a solid RSL in a match the next day.

In the CSA role, in the heat of the competition, it's hard to convince a team to make changes if you don't have a match failure to point to. Example: one team I worked with recently had a painfully bad radio wiring job. Yet it took me three failed matches to convince them to go to spare parts and replace the 12v pigtail.