Strategy: The robot checklist

[Curt_Bagne]

My team has a checklist that we go over before every match and I do a quick visual check on the field as I'm turning on the robot.
Some items that are often overlooked are the screws that hold the wires in the rockwell power distribution block and fuse blocks.
Make sure that the wires are tightly connected to the battery. We used to have a problem with people lifting batteries by the cables and causing the connections to come loose. The robot was disabled for an entire match because one of the battery leads came undone within the first 10 seconds. Learn from our mistakes, being disabled by a simple battery problem is very embarrassing.