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Re: [R08]?

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Originally Posted by eagle33199
Any answer you get to a question of "is this safe?" is going to depend highly on what "it" is.
Very true. I'm guessing that your rotating object is either a wheel or some form of turret. While on the field, this won't likely contact a human, but it might contact game pieces. If a ball is fired by another robot and contacts your device in passing, what will happen to the ball? Will it damage the ball if it becomes lodged on your robot next to this device?

1189 had two exposed wheels mounted on the top of our robot to fire balls, and it was allowed with no problems. Unfortunately, we can't give you a better answer as to how safe it is unless we know what it is that you're rotating, and we can't give more than our best advice and guesses (we're not safety judges or inspectors!).
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