Cheap replacement for the Power Distribution Board

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Al,

Ah, now that I go back and reread my initial post after reading your response, I can see how my post could be interpreted two ways.

Since the 08 robot's electronics got completely removed, we were thinking of wiring it up to to use the cRIO to test out new algorithms for control and just get it working again. We could almost just use the old fuse blocks which we have plenty of lying around, except that we need the 24 volt boost converter to power the cRIO.

Austin if you just tether then any of these options should work fine. Wireless, the access point becomes the biggest problem. So using Greg's option you could also add a third battery for the wireless. I am thinking this through, but my first guess is to put the batteries close together, and tie the negative leads together to prevent circulating currents from running the source voltage up and down for the cRio and the wireless.