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Originally Posted by Cory
Where in the rules does it say that you have to provide a given impulse? All it says is 4 newtons, not 4 newtons for 2 seconds, half a second, etc.
Teams made their minibots to FIRST's rules. They should fix their (still) not fully functional system, or put measures in place to ensure that minibots conforming to their published rules actually get scored.
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Cory, I agree with what you're saying. However, I've heard that, due the false triggering seen early on in week 1, the field hardware now looks to see that the towers remain triggered for 75 milliseconds before a hit is registered. I can imagine that really fast minibots hit so hard that they bounce away and aren't making contact for 75ms.
What's annoying is that this means that the rules have changed, as you suggested. The de-facto rule now appears to be 4 newtons for 75 milliseconds.