[KenWittlief]

ok so that would explain the banner sensor input being invalid for a short period after power up, in fact, the banner sensor itself probabally takes some time to get up and running and output valid data

but what about the switches from the OI? can they also be invalid on powerup? I find that hard to believe because your bot could do some strange things if the operator switches were read in as random states when the bot is first turned on

and my code can only change teleDirection if it sees one of the operator input switches in the active (closed) position (not the robot rc_dig_inxx switches)

?!?!