Feedback Thread: Robot Control System

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by vhcook

Power Distribution board does not seem to provide adequate overcurrent protection for the connections for the cRIO, camera, and robot radio (ports J24, J25, and J26). I didn't really think about this until team 1764 showed me the melted mass of wire and plastic that used to be their camera power cable at the KC regional this year. They appeared to have been using an appropriately sized cable wired to the correct terminal. I don't have all the details as to what went wrong, but it left an impression.

I can comment directly to this; I received the tech support request.

Without going into too many details, the molten-wire-soup response was the result of several chained faults, one of which was using a 2009 PD instead of a 2010 (which was technically against the rules...). The most likely explanation is that there was also a double chassis fault.

So, the problem is rare to begin with and was fixed for the 2010 KoP. No changes are currently planned for the protection on that port for 2011.