Our team has a pin mechanism that releases our ramps. This is pulled by a spinning cable with the pin attached. When the motor is turned on, the pin pulls, and spins around.
We had not tried our ramps using some new code I wrote until our first match at our first regional. When the driver deployed the ramp, the bot shut off. We were very confused as to why this happened.
After further inspection, we realized that this pin mechanism was placed directly over our 120A breaker. The pin actually shut the bot off (a self 'destruct' bot!)... The solution was to change the code to make the pin go the other way
Jacob