[Jon Stratis]

We had a bit of experience with this with our elevator in 2008. At first, we secured it as a bundle like EricH talks about. At our first competition, however, we discovered the drawbacks of this method - You have no control at all where the bundle goes. As a result, we ended up with the bundle repeatedly being pulled through pinch points and causing the elevator to jam.

So at our second competition, we switched the bundle our for energy chain. Now, its path of travel is fully defined and controlled, and the elevator works flawlessly every time. We are definitely using energy chain on our elevator this year.

The curly cords Dale mentions are pretty interesting... I would worry about it getting stuck under our elevator and keeping our manipulator off the ground. other than that, it certainly does seem like it would take care of keeping itself nice and contained near the elevator!