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Originally Posted by 346CADmen
Exactly, and at the end of a match all power should be off. The safety light goes off to assure all robots are powered down. So this was interesting to me. Did they not power down at termination of the match?
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Power does not get turned off at the end of the match (though you are supposed to turn it off before moving your robot off the field). It is perfectly legal to wire a light straight into the PDP (this could obviously change in future years, but I see no reason why it would). All moving parts have to be controlled by the roboRIO, and software running on the roboRIO prevents control signals from being sent to any actuator when the robot is disabled. At the end of a match, all motor controllers are still powered, they are just being sent a signal that tells them not to move.