[FRC Blog] Radio Silence

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I'd also like to understand what the impetus is for teams to not want to power their robot on before they are on the field.

Aside from things like rushed battery changes, what is more dangerous in general: An energized system or a de-energized system?


There are two "energy systems" on the robots: Pneumatic and electrical. Pneumatic, there isn't a way around pressurizing it ahead of time, not if you need the functionality in auto. But, it does generally need the electrical system powered up and responding to controls to activate (unless you happen to know where the manual triggers are). But once the electrical system is powered up, it's powered up and if there's a problem, you'll notice...

Also, there's the "the gyro initializes on startup, so we need to be done placing the robot before we start the robot" crowd. Others call them "inexperienced programmers".