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Re: O/I POWER?

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Originally Posted by Mr. Freeman

Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to run power through the competition port rather than just using the AC adapter?

One reason suggests itself to me immediately: you would need to make only a single connection to the competition port to get power, enable/disable, and autonomous control simultaneously. If you did it that way, you couldn't accidentally power up the robot without having a disable switch available.

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