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Unread 04-02-2013, 11:04
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Re: 2013 running 2 - VI air compressors legal?

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Originally Posted by 1075guy
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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
If I can switch compressors and batteries because spare parts are allowed, then apart from annoying everyone unnecessarily, all this rule accomplishes is to mandate that the cRIO controls and robot's power distribution system be used.
Precisely what my point has been all along. At least some LRIs are capable of understanding reasonable thought. I have never argued that the rule somehow isn't the rule and that I don't need to follow it. I'm arguing that the rule is baseless and silly, and achieves nothing in terms of increasing safety or levelling the playing field.
I thought that when we switch batteries we were required to drain the tanks? That way the tank is filled with the battery we compete with and there's no unfair advantage for using large reservoirs.

There's no obvious place I can find this in the rules though. It says robots are inspected before entering the filler line and robots can't be worked on while in the filler line, so maybe that means robots are in inspection state entering the filler line? Inspection state is powered down and tanks empty.