roboRIO useage

[crake]

A 12V supply with a 10A fuse would power the roboRIO very nicely. Don't power it from 24V that was previously used for cRIO however, as roboRIO gets grumpy when you feed it too many volts.

[GeeTwo]

As long as you aren't dependent on the current-monitoring capabilities of the PDB, this should function OK. I'm not an expert on the new 'RIO, so no guarantees...

[Tem1514 Mentor]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

As long as you aren't dependent on the current-monitoring capabilities of the PDB, this should function OK. I'm not an expert on the new 'RIO, so no guarantees...

This is one of the main questions is how dependent is the system on the CAN bus being hooked up to the PDP and VRM?

[StealthMentor]

We fried the CAN bus on our PD board and the robot still works fine. (Not sure how that happened but the status lights will not come on and when we open it the chips look a little fried.) But the power bus of PD board works fine. We have to buy a new one and replace it since the rules require the status lights to work.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Tem1514 Mentor

This is one of the main questions is how dependent is the system on the CAN bus being hooked up to the PDP and VRM?

No dependency at all.

There is no VRM CAN connection anyway. Any 12v/5v voltage regulator can be used to support the radio.

The PDP CAN connection is only for monitoring purposes.