What he is refering to if the spike that drives the compressor is not green, the ifi_aliases.h file is the old one and the compressor is getting reverse voltage, you can also just wire it black to red, as I think all the relay outs were upside down, someone else may know that for sure, we didn’t get our valve code started until after we were using the new file. If you are using the diode trick to use one spike to drive you double valves, things may get reversed. I may be all wrong about the new file, as far as the other relays go but it would pay to check first.
Is that Harry Potter in the background?
yeah, looks like quick disconnects to me. (although I never find them quick. :))
Sorry i couldn’t post back quicker I was at the Great Lakes Regional. My name is rufu5 and I am a Sophmore in HighSchool and the Electrical team leader for team 447. We used SP50 battery connectors (just like the ones for the battery, since they can handle 50amps) to quick-disconnect all of our motors, and then we used 25pin d-ring connectors for all of our 20awg and up stuff like gyro sensors, hall-effect sensors, ect. This box can be completly dissconected and isolated from the robot for very easy troubleshooting (which i had to do at Great Lakes with help from team 45 the TechnoKats THANK YOU!!), so that is very handy. I also put in neon and LED fans for cooling but the judges made us turn off our neon because the said “they overpowered the team color lights.”
If you have any questions about the box just keep posting, i will try to be online more often lol.
Wow, that’s a beautiful board. I like what you’ve done with the Anderson connectors for the motors. Our electrical guy does maddeningly beautiful wiring like this, too. While beautiful, it’s a huge pain in the butt to modify: the identical wires make it very hard to see what goes where. Has your team encountered this problem?
I also put in neon and LED fans for cooling but the judges made us turn off our neon because the said “they overpowered the team color lights.”
You should get red and blue neon lights that you can easily switch between. They might then be allowed, and they would help everyone else out when trying to figure out what alliance each robot is on.
You should get red and blue neon lights that you can easily switch between. They might then be allowed, and they would help everyone else out when trying to figure out what alliance each robot is on.
That is an awsome idea and I am going to try and follow up on that before Chicago.
Also, we labeled all of the wires (very tiresome process) so we could easily disconnect any pwm or motor cable for testing and then quickly reconnect them before the match lol.
That is a very nice electronics board. We are doing some thing like but it is 4 boards connected togeher w/ Andersons.
Glad the Inspectors didn’t give you any trouble other than the lighting about the fans. Someday I hope our team has space and weight for a control box as sharp as yours. 
That is a very nice electronics board. We are doing some thing like but it is 4 boards connected togeher w/ Andersons.
That sounds interesting, do you guys have a pic?
Nope, sorry, no pics. Yet