What hath we wrought? 2016 Horror Stories

[TacoTheCat]

Originally Posted by codedr

I learned that if the battery cables can be rocked back and forth at the battery or at breaker, they are too loose and will cause high current draws that shutdown the robot.

Wow, we had the same problem over here, except it didn't pop up until after the season. We discovered that if the robot dropped hard enough, it would shut down. After a little bit of percussive maintenance (aka we pushed the wire back and forth for a while) we found that if you move the main power cables around enough, the robot shuts down.

I wonder if there is a good fix for this? Securing down cables a certain way, or creating more secure connections between them?