07-03-2006, 13:24
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Electrical Engineer / Computer Geek
AKA: Eldarion Telcontar
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Team Role: Alumni
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Númenor
Posts: 558
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Re: The 8.2 (or 8.3) Battery Voltage Bug
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Originally Posted by kaszeta
I don't, since we didn't notice the 8.2V and "failing bot" issues (and didn't have a reason to look for them) during testing (we were running motors and test chassis systems by the end of week 2), and spent just about 100 hours running variations of autonomous plays without a problem. Something is subtley different about the competition environment that makes everything worse.
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There is an encrypted serial link between the OI and the Arena Controller; could it be bogging down the OI in certain (rare) circumstances?
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