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Our light was giving us all sorts of trouble during Thursday at our first regional. While my teammates were instructed to flip our control system right-side-up by the inspectors, I tried to figure out what was wrong with our light.

Some of the interesting observations I noticed were:
- Light turns on when i pull the breaker
- Light turns on with no voltage provided to the light through the wires (checked with multimeter)
- Light changes from red to blue and blue to red spontaneously
- Light turns off randomly when the robot is on
- Light occasionally slows down to a stop

Eventually I decided that the connection to the frame must be causing the problem. Mounting a piece of Lexan in between was the solution.

- Patrick

p.s. I was joking about the light color changing (but it wouldn't have surprised me at that point on Thursday) but everything else was true.
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