[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by theprgramerdude

If it's burning out halfway up the pole, it's safe to say they didn't engineer the thing - they just built it and prayed it would work. Complete burnout's like that would occur because the motor is operating in a red zone on the power curve, something that could have easily been avoided had analysis been done on the machine.

Hey... My team used the micro-switches also... But to call someone ignorant or lacking in a science background because they build a big minibot is just wrong...

The same logic, being "competitive", that permits switches to fail applies to allowing motors to burn up... That is assuming that all of you self righteous "engineers" actually considered the consequences of your actions... There are teams who "guessed" at the motor torque curves and others who used switches that "seem" to work... Is one engineering oversight less important than the other?

I prefer to think that any team who fielded a working minibot and delivery system should be praised and not looked down upon because they took a different path to the solution...

This can't be what FIRST is about...

I hope I have made my point and I will post no more on this subject.