Feedback Thread: Robot Control System

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I'll probably end up leaving a couple responses in these threads, with each response as a separate issue.

The ethernet connector on the cRIO was a failure point for us this year.

There were a ton of cycles put on it switching from a tethered connection to the radio connection.

But, I think our issue originated when we were practicing while tethered on the practice field in Atlanta. The robot took a quick turn, and the cable got caught up and probably yanked on the connector. We eventually had to swap our cRIO during a timeout in eliminations as our comms died every match. We felt a noticeable difference in the connection between the two cRIOs.

This was probably more of an issue on our side, but it may be nice to have and out of the box strain relief feature.