FMS enabling sequence?

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Field timing issues were pretty prevalent last year and it's unclear to me any of it has been fixed.

Originally Posted by Jared

It might seem a silly question to ask if there is a significant delay between sending red and blue side commands, but hey, that's exactly what happened last year with the hot goal lights, which were +/- 4 seconds in terms of accuracy at times.

Originally Posted by Jared

You'd think, but the difference in time it took the FMS to send commands to the phillips lighting controller last year was sometimes greater than 2 or 3 seconds. FMS timing seems to be properly understood by nobody.

I think it's fairly widely known that the FMS has been substantially (completely?) rewritten since last season, so anecdotes from 2014 are of limited applicability to 2015.

One of the questions I was taught to ask early on in Grad school is what scale of effect actually matters in a given experiment, and to focus only on those factors that have meaningful impact.
If there are no systematic biases towards particular team stations, how much does a worst case 20ms delay due to polling actually affect a mechanism compared to all the other variables in play?