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Originally Posted by esquared
If you have the same problems other people in this thread have shown, you've tried mounting them vertically, and not deep inside your robot, then call them up and get an RMA. Since so far there isn't a mass posting of "my radio doesn't work", if you don't have any problems I wouldn't send it back.
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Correct, and I'd like to echo that as well, and in part is the reason
why I started a new thread, so that we could be very clear that IF you have a problem as some of us have described, that you need to contact IFI and discuss the situation with them, and if they determine that it is necessary, to RMA the unit back to them.
As of Monday this week, only 2 of the 4 teams reporting a problem had sent in their radio's for examination by IFI. I overnighted our teams radios to make that 3 out of 5.
The burden falls upon IFI and FIRST to determine how to address this issue and whether or not it is something they feel warrants additional attention.
As with last years problem, with what I think was a silicon bug in the user processor, that was worked around by a change to the linker file, some people had experienced the problem and others had not. IFI and FIRST were proactive in making sure that by competition time, all teams had been given the information they needed to make the updates, and I think we should be confident that the same level of effort would be applied to this problem, IF (and I must stress IF) this is later determined to be a problem that potentially affects everyone.
The FUD factor (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) might be running a bit high here, but logical thinking will resolve whatever this issue may be, which again has only been reported by a few teams.
Thanks,