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Originally Posted by Adam.garcia
I've been talking with Adam Heard, and he said that it'd be best to leave the bellypan as is for now until we have had some first-hand experience with professional wiring. Our team does not yet the minimum spacing between many of the electronic components. A fully pocketed Aluminum Bellypan is definitely something we will incorporate into a future revision of the drive train.
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
A sponsor isn't an unlimited resource. We've run both garolite and waterjetted pans on multiple robots. I honestly couldn't say one performs better (the waterjet is stronger, and is certainly cooler. Can't say that extra strength is truly necessary tough). I know for sure that the waterjetted pan is 10x the resource and cost investment at least.
So a waterjetted bellypan is a huge resource dump for minimal competitive gain, and if that same amount of sponsor time was invested in making parts for other system it would be far more useful (a waterjetted bellypan easily equates to the gearbox for every system on the robot in most cases, plus several sets of spares).
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Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!