I am not a fan of the radio itself. It's made to sit still.
We triggered the security reset button in 3 matches at our 2nd regional, sitting there the entire match.
For the first time in my FIRST career, we cheated. We opened the radio and removed the mechanical portion of that button.
we NEED new radios; they simply are horrible for the task, especially the power connector.
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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I'll probably end up leaving a couple responses in these threads, with each response as a separate issue.
The ethernet connector on the cRIO was a failure point for us this year.
There were a ton of cycles put on it switching from a tethered connection to the radio connection.
But, I think our issue originated when we were practicing while tethered on the practice field in Atlanta. The robot took a quick turn, and the cable got caught up and probably yanked on the connector. We eventually had to swap our cRIO during a timeout in eliminations as our comms died every match. We felt a noticeable difference in the connection between the two cRIOs.
This was probably more of an issue on our side, but it may be nice to have and out of the box strain relief feature.
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That better not have been our cRIO
