Intermittent connection on field only

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by RyanN

The compressor is controlled in its own loop in periodic tasks and called every second. For no reason should CAN errors cause it to drop out like it is.

There actually is a possible reason for CAN errors to shut off the compressor. It's a second-order effect. The error processing and reporting uses up a lot of system resources, delaying other actions, including the communication task. The system watchdog times out because the data from the Driver Station didn't get processed in time. Every PWM and Relay output on the Digital Sidecar gets shut off. Since the compressor is controlled by a Spike relay, it stops.