[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That sounds familiar. A team at the Boilermaker Regional had pretty much the same symptoms. After they replaced their cRIO, I took a close look at the "bad" one with one of their students. There was a small crumb of aluminum in one of the unused module connectors, underneath the plastic cap. I don't know if they got around to testing it again, but I suspect it now will work fine.

Suggestion: look for debris that might be shorting a power connection.

As it turns out, that wasn't the issue. I know we always had our empty connectors covered, but I wasn't sure if any of them came uncovered. The people at the school said they were still covered and everything was checked to be clean when the cRIO was pulled out of the robot.