Control System Issues

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by Mastonevich

Sidecar:
Our sidecar is in the middle of our robot surrounded by lots of other robot stuff. If I remember at Alamo, I will try to take a picture and post.

Is it mounted horizontally or vertically, because we tend to notice an increase in reliability of our electronics when they're mounted on a vertical plane. Seems to be that less dust, dirt, metal shavings, and other assorted fouling settles on/inside them.

However, 2 sidecars failing in one regional seems to be excessive if that's the cause unless it's mounted right next to or directly under a moving part, or you did a lot of drilling and filing without a vacuum nearby.

[Mastonevich]

Of course there was some drilling being done and maybe that was the cause. We were very careful to cover up and use a vacuum though. This is the first sidecar we have ever lost.