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Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988
Our team started experiencing problems again. We changed the configuration, per the third post located at IFI's Forums.
We found that when you make both perpendicular to the floor and away from metal objects they work perfect. But you get a metal object near one of them, or in there line of site they have problems at times. After talking to IFI, they had told us two things to read that post and follow what it said there, and to keep it away form metal objects. Now this seems weird considering most of the field is metal, and the rack in the center is all metal, and other robots are made out of metal.... |
Obviously you wouldn't want to put your RC radio in the bottom of the robot next to the motors, and you could have some problems, BUT with good visible mounting away electronics and metal, and they still don’t work right, it is a serious problem. This is FIRST and there will be a myriad of metalic objects moving on the field at a time, so chances are, "no metal objects" in its line of sight is obviously not a viable possibility. I have Faith that IFI will have this solved in a week. Go FIRST