No battery voltage readings on DS!

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by billbo911

We had this issue a couple years ago. It turned out a programmer had assigned the same analog input used for monitoring battery voltage to a second device.

That would be Analog Input 8

What the jumper does is steal the signal pin from that analog input for use as the battery detector.
If the jumper is put over the other (inside) pin then analog input 8 acts like a normal input in the alternate analog cRIO module slot.

Opening Analog Module 1's analog input 8 is a no-no because it's already opened by the battery monitor.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Opening Analog Module 1's analog input 8 is a no-no because it's already opened by the battery monitor.

If your program needs to know the battery voltage, there's a handy Get Robot Battery Voltage.vi in the Driver Station function subpalette.