Electrical CheckList

[ATannahill]

Is this for maintence between matches? I would mainly check that the pwm and power wires are connected. Breakers and wire guages are rearely effected during a match.

If you are more geared towards a pre-inspection lookover, than be sure that the rules laid down about wire gauge and breaker sizes are followed, check that batteries are taped at the terminals and that you are not grounded into the robot, and that there are no jumpers on the sidecar that shouldn't be.

These are very general instructions. Making a checklist and bringing it to competition can be helpful.

[rsisk]

Simple question I hope, how do you check that everything is grounded correctly?

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Simple question I hope, how do you check that everything is grounded correctly?

Take a multimeter set to continuity and touch one end to the negative of the power distribution board and the other end to the negative of your jaguars, spikes, victors, etc. If it beeps you are grounded correctly, next repeat with the first end touching a piece of metal on your robot, it should not beep this time.

[EricVanWyk]

I like to divide checklists like this into "stuff I have to do before applying power" and "stuff I'll find faster by watching it fail".

For example: errors in the high power wiring can result in damage, but forgetting a jumper on the DSC will just prevent that servo from running.

[McGurky]

This would be more of a chacklist that every the electronics is tampered with or worked on, to run through this list to be sure that nothing will get fried on powerup