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Re: pic: 4908 Prototype West Coast Drive

Back when we used the cRio, this was more viable. Now that we have the RoboRio you need to exercise much greater care to prevent costly brown-outs. You NEED current sensing in your code for this to be worth it, and probably some form of auto-shifting to get the best use out of your power available. When we did 6 CIM in 2014 all we had to worry about was popping the breaker. We would not do another 6 CIM with the RoboRio without a lot of thought about how to implement it well.
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