anyother robots smoke up?

[ForgottenSalad]

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

One of the teams at Florida regional started to smoke in the middle of the field. I am not exactly sure which team it was. They burnt a fp.

Arefin - The team that had the release of magic smoke at UCF was us in Q18. We burnt out two FETS on one of our speed controllers for the drivetrain while pushing two other robots. The ref onsite said he knew the smell and said it had to be the fp, but on return to the pits, I confirmed that it wasn't the FP, I had rewired everything that morning and knew I hadn't connected it that match. It wasn't much magic smoke from the speed controller, but we hit disable before further damage/smoke could occur. Although after this I'm slightly uneasy about the 40amp breakers reliably popping before the speed controller fries...

Video: http://www.techjunkieblog.com/robotics/q18_810smoke.wmv

(As a side note, we had a lot of bad electonic luck in UCF.... We turned on the robot after uncrating it and all of the 5 spikes were dead. They were working perfectly when we shipped...... IFI rep personally tested them and seemed just as confused as us that all 5 were dead and all the other electronics were fine.)