Check your Anderson battery connectors

[philso]

Originally Posted by rammsey

I myself, along with the other drive team member when we put the robot on the field. Checked the connection, tugged on it, wiggled it. It was seated in there for good. We made sure it was not going to pop out like our previous match.

But then we go over a rock wall (not even at full speed if i remember correctly!) and boom, out for the whole match.

Back in the pits, we tug on it, wiggle it around, bend it, do everything possible. Drop the robot from 5 inches multiple times. Nothing! D:

Nothing like this has happened during any practice where we basically bashed the robot into defenses every which way.

Like you say, there maybe an underlying cause, but I guess we have to wait till our next regional to do further inspection. But even if we do fix the issue, definitely still going to use zip ties, can't risk it.

When you drop and bash your robot, you can only determine that you may have some loose connections. You will have a hard time determining which connections are bad by doing this. To find the bad connections, you really need to methodically check each and every connection point, starting from the terminals of the battery, to look for loose connections. Do not stop if you have found one loose connection. It is quite possible that you have two or more. You also have to treat the crimp of the contact in the connectors as a separate connection point to be checked apart from checking that the contacts are actually connecting. You seem to be focusing only on the battery connectors.