Early Bird Control System

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Those off-white right-hand-only joysticks are labeled "A/B". I typically called them the "POS" joysticks, though. They're capable of being modified to work well, but out of the box they are...poor.

Agreed. When trying to use them for tank drive they are just plain "Bad."
The new Attack 3 sticks look much better. I'll know more when my team pulls them out of the box tomorrow.

[Qbranch]

I'll be very interested to see how the new fuseblock does under high current loads... PC boards have amazed me in the past with how much current traces can handle, but... I just don't know. 4 cims running at max fuse current. That can happen for a few moments as you're accelerating... I'll be interested to see if the voltage supply to the motors drops a rediculous amount. I mean, that's 160A trying to push through a PC board... the same thing we use a giant block of gold plated copper to do now. Just seems like either we're WAY overdoing it with the current maxi block, or the PC board will be overwhelmed... anyone care to offer their opinion on this?

What are the little blue things to the right of the OI panel (there are three of them sitting on black antistatic bags)?

I can hardly wait for us to get ours... I so want to see how much of the vision tools suite they gave teams.

-q

[ebmonon36]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

What are the little blue things to the right of the OI panel (there are three of them sitting on black antistatic bags)?

-q

Those are the analog and pneumatic breakouts (formerly called bumpers)

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

What are the little blue things to the right of the OI panel (there are three of them sitting on black antistatic bags)?

Originally Posted by ebmonon36

Those are the analog and pneumatic breakouts (formerly called bumpers)

Two are analog breakouts and one is a solenoid breakout

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I'll be very interested to see how the new fuseblock does under high current loads... PC boards have amazed me in the past with how much current traces can handle, but... I just don't know. 4 cims running at max fuse current. That can happen for a few moments as you're accelerating... I'll be interested to see if the voltage supply to the motors drops a rediculous amount. I mean, that's 160A trying to push through a PC board... the same thing we use a giant block of gold plated copper to do now. Just seems like either we're WAY overdoing it with the current maxi block, or the PC board will be overwhelmed... anyone care to offer their opinion on this?

I have not heard any of the beta teams having any problems with the PD board. In our case, the voltage drop seems no worse then the old system. I know FIRST did current measurements of real robots during real matches to make sure everything was designed to handle the real loads.

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I can hardly wait for us to get ours... I so want to see how much of the vision tools suite they gave teams.

You don't have to wait to start reading. http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2453#cf

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I'll be very interested to see how the new fuseblock does under high current loads...

Erik (the designer of the new Power Distribution board) told me this morning that it stayed perfectly cool under conditions that made the main breaker too hot to touch. It has very thick copper.