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Re: Shock Absorbers for the electrical system
In games less bumpy than this year's, my team has known the helpless dismay of having your robot entirely or mostly die on the field due to an electrical connection being knocked loose.
In addition to advocating the securing of PWMs (hot glue is one option but I have seen the whole glue-gobbed end of the wire pop loose anyway, a few short strips of electrical tape stuck to the right angle may work too) I would call attention to the screw-tightening connections of the clip that wires the PD board to the cRIO. Those connections are, in our experience, definitely less reliable than the other wago connections in the control system.
As far as crimping your other terminals, in general make sure you're using connectors appropriately sized for the wire, don't crimp perpendicular to the flat part of the ring terminal/quick disconnect, etc.
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