Thread: LEDs connected to Solenoid Breakout. It's illegal, but why?
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Re: LEDs connected to Solenoid Breakout. It's illegal, but why?
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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
From the rules, it is illegal to connect anything but solenoids and the line sensors to the solenoid breakout. We have 3 LED strings, pulling about 300mA a piece. We would love to save some space and connect them to the solenoid breakout board, but guess what...



Any reason why custom circuits are not allowed? It's adding unnecessary complication to our already over complicated robot.
Believe me, my students were a bit ticked at this as well.

The solenoid breakout is simply the BEST way to power your LED light indicators.

Unfortunately, from my reading of the rules, that would be illegal.

I agree that we would all benefit from a loosening of the rules of what can be hooked up to the solenoid breakout to include custom circuits < 500mA.
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