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Unread 02-05-2010, 00:35
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Re: Feedback Thread: WPILib

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Originally Posted by FRC4ME View Post
We experienced the same problem. In the end we had to stop using CAN on the competition bot, because the entire drive system thread would crash if it lost a single packet. With the heavy vibrations and impacts of competition shaking the connectors around in the CAN ports, this happens sometimes.
I've seen nothing like this. On our bot we were running without a jag for a while (thanks to the ID reset bug) while the code was still trying to communicate with it which would surely drop packets. Using C++ w/ black jag bridge.
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