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Originally Posted by rcflyer620
One thing I found that was fairly consistent was the flat black ethernet cable provided in the kit was problematic. teams that had swapped it out for real twisted pair ahd almost no problems with communication.
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Originally Posted by pitzoid
So regardless of whether you think you've got it ll figured out or not, move the radio as far away from other noisey things like motor controllers and relays as possible. I suggest a MINIMUM of 6", more if you can. In Phoenix there was not a single field fault the whole tournament.
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Hmmmm....interesting....the flat, black ethernet cable is rather short, the twisted pair cable is kind of long. Could it be that those robots with the radio mounted further away from the other electronics worked better? or that the shorter cable just doesn't work as well?
(I love the correlation-causation comic)