Check your Anderson battery connectors

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

This is some great advice. I was the FTAA at the NYC regional last weekend and whenever a robot would lose communication with the field, the FTAs and I would wiggle-test as much of the power pathway as we could trying to find something loose. I can recall a few situations where robots had either loose Anderson connectors or loose connections between the battery and the wires. We were able to reliably cause reboots by wiggling the cables around, which is what happened during the match when the robot hit a defense.

Yup that was us, luckily Mark (The FTA spotted it during our first match on practice day) after that we had 2 rio reboots which ended up being a battery cable hitting the red button on the breaker.

Pre match wiggle your alliance partners cables around JUST DO IT. If they tell you they lost comms one match do it more. If they blame it on a field fault but, there was not a replay it was not a field fault it was them. On Sunday I started doing it, and it did make a difference. There was one particular alliance partner who wouldn't let me do it saying I wasn't qualified because our alliance was seeded low and ironically enough they lost comms that match TWICE.