View Single Post
  #5   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 31-01-2009, 18:42
crake crake is offline
National Instruments
AKA: Chris Rake
no team (Athena)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 185
crake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond reputecrake has a reputation beyond repute
Re: Dead cRIO??!!? HELP!!!

You should be able to get a replacement pretty quickly by contacting NI on Monday. In the meantime I'd like some more details on this issue. You mentioned the cRIO died while driving... some questions:

1) Was this actually while driving (no human contact with the robot at all), or were you downloading code or otherwise working on the robot?
2) Did anything else happen at the time of the failure (massive collision, another component failed, etc.)?
3) Have you always used the PD module to power the cRIO?
4) Have you ever "hot connected" the cRIO by plugging in a live power cable?

Thanks!