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RC Specs
I searched but I couldn't find anything on the voltage of the new controller. We were driving in high gear on a low battery yesterday, and the radio link was fading in and out. The one thing I noticed, though, was the controller never reset at such low voltages. So did FIRST lower the minimium voltage, or will we still lose controllers.
PS: I saw the battery voltage down to 5.7v Last edited by Steven Carmain : 09-02-2003 at 07:45. |
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In the IFI RC Ref Guide it says:
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It didn't need it, but I think they could have wired it in with the auto-reset of the robot when you download the code
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Well, if the controller automatically resets itself when it gets power, losing the controller shouldn't totally kill the robot (like what happened to us at the Midwest regional last year)
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The controller will reset below 8 volts if the low voltage continues for a length of time. This time seems to have improved over last year's controller. I would guess that Innovation First added or beefed up the power supply capacitor to hold up the controller during power sag. You gotta love those Innovation First guys for listening to their customers. However, if you are seeing voltage dropping below 8 volts (you do know how to set the OI to read robot power?) then assume the controller is going to reset and take some appropriate action. RC reset/initialize is a couple of seconds of no play.
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