pic: Battery connector.....

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Nirvash,

Ever taken a No Good CRIO apart that has been used on a competition bot before? One that has been drilled on for a season or 2, etc.....Alum. flakes are everywhere on the surface of the board. I didn't actually check that screw to see if there was any positive current present w/ the battery connected...The battery was already out and in hand when we received the bot back at the pit.

I was only saying check it first. Thousands of hours of runtime, and only a few failures, points away from the Anderson Connectors in my mind is all.

The most costly failures I have seen so far have been caused by a wayward staple (from the back of a bumper), down in a sidecar crossing about 10 pins, and some magic smoking motors turned to actual flame. But 2 major items that will frame ground are that CRIO and the rear grounding lug if used for mounting on the older cameras. Though Jags & CAN I am not at all happy with since it cost us big 2 years ago repeatedly.

I'd bet Texas Instruments could tell us why that screw is even there.