pic: Bad Anderson Connector

[AndreaV]

As Donkehote mentioned 5031 got one of these flipped connectors from Andymark. We flipped the leads as suggested.

This past weekend our alliance captain, team 2013, The Cyber Gnomes needed a battery in the quarter finals. We lent them one of ours, this battery was dubbed "Omega".

With 90 seconds left the Gnomes got bumped and lost all power. Our one point dump defense bot and our alliance partner 4825 somehow miraculously squeaked out a win (actually I know how, tech fouls, the same kind that had lost us the match before and after this occurrence, oh wait that's another thread.)

After inspecting the battery it was clear that Omega's negative terminal slipped out. This should have cost us a quarterfinal match. No blame should go to Andymark, as they express shipped us a replacement lead right away, however in the excitement of build season this got overlooked. Omega served us well during build practice, and multiple practice and qualifying matches at GTRE. These things have a way popping up at the worst of times.

We felt horrible taking away the gnome's 2nd last chance to play at GTRE. Don't let this happen to you! If you have one of these flipped leads, toss it! It's not worth the risk!

[tbarban]

So that's what happened. I was only told by 2013 that it had to do with the battery, makes sense now.

[Tungrus]

It is the last thing that one would expect, QC process should have caught this at vendor's site. In 2012 the flat ribbon connecting cRIO and DS was reversed too!