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Re: What do you wish you knew about the new control system?

I'd definately go over the required backup battery......one more thing for teams to make sure to connect,
setting the team number (must teather to the OI, no DIP switches to set on the RC),
TTL serial port (maybe go over the basics of hooking up a link to a secondary microcontroller, etc),
go over why some PCs might require the use of the "PROG" button
hooking up interrupts

as for the OI:
the "disable dipswitch"
the competition port pin guide
Dashboard port specs
better go over binary team # for those that might have forgotten
Competition control LED
disappearance of the "user mode"
channel dipswitch
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