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Unread 03-02-2011, 17:40
Rosemount2606 Rosemount2606 is offline
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Interesting idea, didn't find anything saying I couldn't)

I didn't find anything saying that I couldn't do this, yet it seems to me that it might still be against the rules. If somebody has come across anything preventing this, please do tell, as it will provide much help.

We want to attach an extra power distribution board, battery, and approximately 20 fans (as many extra as we have) onto our driver station.

Any reason why we can't do that?

There would be no cRio attached, and there would be be an emergency shutoff switch attatched to the battery. All we are doing is powering fans (for "cooling down the driver" and "visual effect" (ie. looking awesome).

Thanks for the help.

EDIT - Forgot to ask, I know it says that only 1 thing may be plugged into each port on the power distribution board, but could we attatch multiple fans to the same 1, considering that it isn't on the robot?

The other solution we have is to make multiple fans go into the same cable, using little plastic connectors that have names I am not aware of. (they are yellowish plastic). Then plugging each of those cables into the power distribution board.

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