Thread: Minibot's triggering targets?
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Re: Minibot's triggering targets?
For those of you insinuating small bots are not triggering, that was definitely not the case at FLR. The switches at the top of the pole are simple limit switches that deflect easily. The false positives during practice at FLR caused the field team to basically disable (I don't know what they actually did, but only one pole was really triggering) the tower finish lines. The mini bots traveling up the pole in 1.5 seconds or less have at least 10 times the energy required to trigger at the specified trigger force.

I am sure the system will get fixed, but the tower is definitely the problem right now.
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