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Re: Request a Re-Write of the Wire Color Rule for 2013.

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Originally Posted by Cal578 View Post
If you're seriously requesting a change to the rules, Chief Delphi isn't the proper channel. You'll need to contact the Game Design Committee.
I am seriously requesting discussion, Al will eventually see this, and see if it has any merit. I am only 2 years into FIRST, so asking for some understanding.

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
As you pointed out, industry applications have their standards and codes, why shouldn't FIRST have its standards as well?
I guess that is my point, if you want standardization, then pick A color and stick with it.

I don't understand the points about inspection, as if you really had a standard, all of the robots would follow the same color code. It would even be more understood.

I was not going for this strict standard in original post, but now as I look at the colors, and the comments, I really have an issue with white being used as a positive. In the US and most other nations, white is not used as a positive. We wired the bot with the white with blue tracer on the positive, and blue on the negative to meet the spec. The issue I have with that, and the reason for the post, was it is completely wrong, to what these kids will find in a couple of years after FIRST.

I am glad that Andrew posted, but as a student that came up through the FIRST program, now goes to Kettering, and works at Chrysler. There is not a single application he will come across, where white will be a positive.

NEC says so. (66.9 robot control falls under this spec, but obviously, I wouldn't make the case that an FRC robot is a control panel, and Andrew might, as it appears that anything mobile doesn't fall under any standards.)

That just seems wrong, to me.
I think it is a disservice.

For the humor...
For the record the kids didn't mind, and the electrons still flowed unknowingly.
http://xkcd.com/927/
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