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Originally Posted by Ed Sparks
IMHO, It was option #1. I know because I was the guy with my face in your robot when this was happening. There were no LED's illuminated on the power distribution block shortly after the match started. I confirmed there was no power on the Bridge or the cRIO and the RSL was off. The exact same thing happened to 590. I saw this 3 times on Saturday. I brought this up in the inspector's post event confrence call and it has happened before at other events and other years. The 120A breaker is not bullet proof apparently.
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And yes, he is completely correct. It wouldnt stay closed. We took it off and got a new one that we are putting in right when we get to Palmetto.
They said if the robot was off they would have stopped the match but what had happened we it gave a voltage reading as the match started but like seconds later the breaker failed and the robot turned off. Therefore they couldnt do anything about it and had to let the match run.
It was completely fair. Unfortunate, but completely fair. Plus we won that one.
I am not sure what to tell teams who wantt o check this problem but I believe that Flash said that they had this issue as well. Just beware about this problem. Maybe test your switch before matches to ensure that it doesn't pop out. Or Tape it like us haha