Thread: Wireless Bridge Disconnects when driving?
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Re: Wireless Bridge Disconnects when driving?
Yeah, last year before we connected the bridge to dedicated power we noticed that every once in a while the bridge would reset. We were confused until we realized that it was correlated with low battery voltage.

What was happening was that large current draws (like drive motors) were causing voltage to drop down below 6V, which was essentially a brownout for the bridge.