Death of our cRIO, and some suggestions for NI

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That sounds familiar. A team at the Boilermaker Regional had pretty much the same symptoms. After they replaced their cRIO, I took a close look at the "bad" one with one of their students. There was a small crumb of aluminum in one of the unused module connectors, underneath the plastic cap. I don't know if they got around to testing it again, but I suspect it now will work fine.

Suggestion: look for debris that might be shorting a power connection.

Sounds like yet another reason to mount the cRIO vertically, in a "panel mount" orientation. This minimizes the risk of the cRIO chassis turning into a robot debris wastebasket.