[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Teched3

It seems the GDC has come up short by allowing us to repair burned out components on the Tetrix motors. How many times can you bend those retaining tabs before they break off? How will they be able to determine if the replacement inductor/capacitor was the exact replacement? What they should've included, IMO, was to allow us to put minifuses on the motor lead(s) to protect the motors. It is just poor safety and engineering practice not to have those motors properly protected. Sort of closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out. Anyone else out there agree?

It is quite possible, likely even, that GDC had no idea how these motors would react to the devil-may-care "design" work done by our enthusiastic high-schoolers. Can you give us more details about the minifuses? I would put them into my test machinery regardless of competition legality, then remove them for competition.

As far as I can tell the biggest oversight was the failure to include motor leads at all in the first choice parts kit. They ran down the list of needed motor stuff to add to the resource kit but fell short of even the standard connection method. That connector is at least designed for the machine. No visible strain relief in it and no way to secure it to the motor either. I get the idea that it's an afterthought from Tetrix.