CRIO-FRCIII

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by yash101

Thanks for your help. The router I use is the RT-N53 and I found out the casing caused thermal overload, but that is off topic.
That is a very useful approach to find those pesky shorts. I, myself, thought of using the system resistance and watching the voltage drop on the driver station to calculate current draw of the system!
I wonder what FIRST has in mind for these current sensors. They maybe useful for reporting faults automatically to the FMS so they can be prepared to look for specific problems!

I'm excited for a number of reasons regarding real time current monitoring. Being able to monitor current draw on each channel should make it fairly trivial to create preprogrammed motor protection. It also will be nice to be able to monitor current when you intentionally stall motors, during ball acquisition, etc.

You can do that now but it isn't nearly as easy as having it all 'built in'.