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Team Update 2012-02-17

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GAME - Team UPDATE - 2012-02-17
Power Distribution

[R44]
All active circuits shall be wired with appropriately sized wire:

Application

Minimum wire size

40A circuit
12 AWG (2.052mm)
30A circuit
14 AWG (1.628mm)
20A circuit
18 AWG (1.024mm)
between the PD Board and the Analog and/or Solenoid Breakouts if a common power feed is used
between the PD Board and the Analog and/or Solenoid Breakouts if individual power feeds are used
20 AWG (0.8128mm)
between the PD Board and the cRIO
between the PD Board and the wireless bridge
between the PD board and 5A custom circuits
pneumatic valves
24 AWG (0.5106mm)

The branch circuit may include intermediate elements such as COTS connectors, splices, COTS flexible/rolling/sliding contacts, and COTS slip rings, as long as the entire electrical pathway is via appropriately gauged conductors.

Wires that are originally attached to legal devices are part of the device and by default legal as supplied. Such wires are exempt from Rules [R44] and [R45].

And that's the entire update. That's a very reasonable change to make--exempting motor leads from the color requirements (which don't apply to them anyway due to motors not having constant polarity).

Re: Team Update 2012-02-17

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Originally Posted by EricH (Post 1129011)

And that's the entire update. That's a very reasonable change to make--exempting motor leads from the color requirements (which don't apply to them anyway due to motors not having constant polarity).

Are you talking OEM wires attached to a motor? I wonder if we can use speaker wire that is not read/black for motors?

TIA

Re: Team Update 2012-02-17

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Originally Posted by wireties (Post 1130138)

Are you talking OEM wires attached to a motor? I wonder if we can use speaker wire that is not read/black for motors?

TIA

The update seems to only apply to that OEM wire with the keywords of "wires that are originally attached."