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Re: 6 hours, 4 mentors and 2 students couldnt figure out whats wrong with our relays

I know this is a shot in the dark, but we are having very similar problems, so I thought I would throw in my $.02.

By any chance are you running your compressor code in the timed loop section, either 10ms or 100ms?
If so, by any chance is the camera not currently hooked up?

Here is why I ask.
In the past we have had lots of trouble when our camera cable had come unplugged and we had a lot of robot code that was included in the same loop. The huge amount of load placed on the system with bad or no data from the camera prevented the rest of the code from completing. What I am wondering is if the same thing is happening now. We currently do not have our camera plugged in, but the code is still running. The vision code runs in the same "Frame" as the periodic loops. Could the camera errors be preventing the periodic loops from updating the output to the relay controlling the compressor?

I will be investigating this around 4:30pm PST today.
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