[FRC Blog] Radio Silence

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

I'm not a betting man, but I'd wager that a significant percentage of the radio reboots happened because the power connector wouldn't stay in unless you taped the darn thing.

Regardless of rat's nest wiring or not, it's still a pretty bad situation to sit there still for the majority of the match just because your radio power cycled...

One of our early Saturday matches had that happen... despite enough electrical tape that it probably degraded the signal significantly.

Unfortunately it wasn't until after our only competition did we find out we can power it via PoE from the VRM and the power connector for redundancy.