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Re: Static Discharge Disables Robot

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
I'm wondering what we're doing differently that we never get zaps from our robot, in spite of building during the driest time of the year and without having special tricks to keep from getting shocked... ...because I'd really rather it not happen to our robots during a game!
I'm pretty sure the biggest contributor to the difference is wheel material. We never get zapped from the practice robot wearing metal wheels, but we always get zapped, sometimes repeatedly, from the Lunacy 'bot and its hard plastic wheels.