Automatic Power

[russell]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It does sound like your main breaker is broken (by failing to break reliably).

The only other possibility I can think of is that you have some dangly wires or unfortunately placed bolts somewhere, and your chassis is intermittently completing the circuit around the breaker.

(Pay no attention to the comments about the backup battery. It won't power the Victor fans or the breaker panel LED, and the RC firmware shuts off after five seconds without main power anyway.)

Alan is right. The backup battery couldnt power the fans and such even if it was running the Robot Controller, and the new firmware this year changed things so your Robot Controller automatically shuts down after about five seconds. Additionally we had a similar problem after our regional was over last year, where we would press the button and the little dealie would pop out, but it wouldnt pop out quite far enough. We could still turn it off by reaching down and pulling it out, but for competition you should get a new one.