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[rrossbach]

Originally Posted by pitzoid

Update:

Sent a bunch of test data to FIRST and DEKA yesterday confirming the DS Network chip susceptability to EMP. Today they were able to repeat my results, so it seems confirmed. We can't fix the DS easily, but we're working on a bunch of "workarounds". FIRST is looking into ways to eliminate static generation, which if they can will fix the source of the issue and I've been testing some FMS network mods today that enable the DS to do a minimal association with the the FMS network. I.e. now when the DS network chip resets on an EMP event, I can have it talking with both FMS and the robot in under 2 seconds. If the DS completely reboots its a few more seconds but it still comes back fast. Not the ideal situation, but it should help. Hopefully we won't have any static issues this weekend.

Oh, and the added extra benefit of the network mods? Looks like we dropped about 20 seconds off the initial DS/robot/fms linkup before a match starts

Real engineering: see a problem, analyze the data, if you can't "fix it", find the work around

Great news! Hopefully even if there are any issues in future competitions it won't impact teams & their alliance partners as much as in the past. Thanks!!!

Ron