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At the post season river rage event last year, we drove up in the pouring rain with a second robot in an open pickup truck.

We put the battery on it and tried getting it running for maybe 10 minutes checking this and that, blowing out here or there.

I was thinking that there might be water on the connectors of the FRC (understatement of the century) and we should bring it to the hand dryer in the bathroom to dry it off. As I was handing it off to be dried I could distinctly hear water sloshing around inside the thing. We unscrewed the screws on the back of the unit and water poured out of the unit. It was literally filled to the top with water. We dried it off and it worked but the spikes didn't.

Checking the spikes, they were also filled to the top with water.

The 884's seemed to self drain.

After draining, everything worked fine and does to this day. We did have trouble getting some rusted gears off motors a few months later.

It seems the IFI boards and components are fairly robust.

While bad, I wouldn't sweat the water too much and as mentioned above at least no one was hurt and you have a great F.I.R.S.T. story.