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Re: After Coming Back From The LA Regional: My Thoughts On FIRST

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I'd much prefer the IFI system's reliability, but I like the power of the cRIO. Vision tracking with IFI was tough. Now, half the teams out there have it. But the IFI system didn't lose comm every other match.
Actually, in LA the most common reasons for "loosing coom" were in no particular order:

Bad battery
Bad battery connection
loose radio power connection
loose cRio power connection
touchy Classmate ethernet connection (on Classmate side)
radio reset due to shock
one robot got turned off when a ball landed on the main breaker (my favorite)
we also had numerous teams forget to plug their radio back in after programming changes, but those were caught and corrected before match start

none of these have much to do with the field control system
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