Re: Multiple SPIKES wired to same fuse
 

Perhaps rather than saying "to make tech inspections easier", I should have said, "to make tech inspections possible". The GDC has referred to the time constraints placed on inspectors at least once in the Q&A in reference to bumpers and that it is not practical to evaluate non-standard bumper designs at the competition, so I believe it is fair to say that some rules are written with the intent of making tech inspection fair, repeatable, practial and possible. Which, although it can sound quite a bit different from "easier", is what I had in mind. I did not mean to imply that a rule that makes tech inspection "easier" would be a bad thing, in fact I meant to imply that this would be a fair and reasonable justification for a rule. The fairness and predictability of FRC's tech inspection process is one of the highlights of the program.

We have modified our control board to meet the rule, for even though I believe I have cause to argue that it is good engineering practice to attach several low-current loads to a single breaker in order to minimize size and weight requirements on the electronics board, it is clearly poor engineering practice to build something that does not comply with the rule book!

Jason