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Re: Bumper question

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
8" on each side of each vertex means 8" on the turnwise side, and 8" on the widdershins side. (CW and CCW). The corners need to be protected, but don't count as part of the 8". 8" of frame need to be protected on each side.
Ok, I agree with you on that. The rule is questionable at this point. Your reading of the rules also implies you could split the bumpers up into eight 1" lengths of bumper, put them on one side of your robot equally spaced (with two of them filling the corners on each side) and that would be legal. But read the ruling from the QnA (my previous post) about a different question regarding bumpers. The answer on the QnA states:

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A. The 8 in. of Frame Perimeter immediately on either side of an exterior vertex must be covered by a Bumper.
My interpretation of that answer is take any exterior vertex, take a tape measure from that exterior vertex 8" along one side the frame. That area is where bumpers must be. Preforming that process on each side of exterior vertex (8 different places) would give you a minimum of 16" of bumper on each side.

For the time being the rule is still up in the air to many people. Just wait until the newest R27 question is answered. It will answer this discrepancy.
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