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Originally Posted by Mentor007

Putting EMI suppression cap on the FP motor to the extent legal.

I've talked to FIRST for years about this. We went through a painful phase in robot combat where there would be all sorts of radio drop out issues due to noisy motors and it could be fixed with supression caps across the motor leads. I actually think this should be mandated for the KOP motors as most of them are extremely "inexpensive" motors that will create alot of brush noise EMP. Some of the better designed robots I've seen the last few years as the head mechanical Judge at the PHX regional were the ones that would seperate the control electronics (in this case it'd be the cRio, WGA and breakout boards) from the motor controllers and motors by some sort of sheilding screen or bulkhead. But this is a consideration with initial design.

I'm in the camp right now that bots should have a drag chain, I don't know what the hold up is on that, ultimately its FIRST's decision. I know they are contemplating putting drag chains on the trailers for this weekend, I'd prefer that they give teams the option to put them on their bots as we've proved that the KOP wheel from this year is very efficient at isolating static voltage buildup.

On another note: FMS ran well this past weekend, we had a couple equipment issues with Estop that were manufactured incorrectly. But most other issues seen were related to robots and ESD.

Hopefully, tomorrow we'll have some resolution in the team update.