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Larry Johnston
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Re: does anyone have OI and RC radio issues

Team 1501 is also having the same problem. We have already experienced things like the disbale not wokring when it should etc. When it was first rbought to my attention and i was testing it we let go of the joysticks and the robot did not stop until it scooted a table a good 2 feet or so.

We usually try to have extra radio modems, victors, and spikes, so when the radio modems come in we will switch them out and see what happens.

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I wanted to add that, we had a problem simular last year. We had came to the conclusion that it was static electricity coming through a custom cable. Once the cable was removed off the robot, we didn't have the problem again.

I have also seen (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) the robot do this when the backup battery gets low. I did not think of the frame and the antenna being close together as causing a problem, but will check on that.

So far we have tried a bunch of things. While it has only happened a few times, when it does happen it goes on for a little bit. I think the last time I seen a problem was 2 or 3 days ago

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