After the Kickoff on Saturday morning, we've attended control system workshop. Generally, it was to wire up all the new components and do basic setup for the Benchtop test.  Since we have finished Benchtop test few days ago, we continued working on LabVIEW programming to make compressor working.  For some odd reason compressor didn't function when it should have.  With some help from Waialua's programming mentor, we were able to find out the problem which was our wiring connection on relay.  PWM cable on relay was reversed which prevented the SPIKE relay from getting a signal.  Next day we continued on working with LabVIEW programming.  We successfully integrated Solinoid example code into FRC cRIO basic framework. 

We started to integrate Victor, servo, encoder, relay, accelerometer, and gyro into basic framework.  We've encountered a problem starting from Monday with Digital Sidecar.  Whenever we ran our code to test servo DSC's LED light went off.  BAT, 5V, and 6V LEDs were all off.  When we removed a servo from DSC, 5V LED lit up.  We suspected Watchdog.vi in WPI Library but we were wrong.  We figured that our poor quality control caused this problem through the help from FRC community on Chief Delphi forum.  It was the bad wiring on Power Distribution block.  We inserted a wire too deep into PD that it was clamping onto insulation not the wire, so obiously DSC wasn't getting any power from PD.  With no power supply from PD, DSC was running on the power from cRIO's module.  That is why whenever we plugged in a jumper on DSC, it would shut off due to insufficient voltage. 

From now on, our team should improve quality of our work and strive for excellence.

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