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Re: pic: Shot of the electrical board before it goes on the robot

Responses in order of the posts above:

- No pneumatics. The last time the team used pneumatics was 2007!
- As McGurky said, the color coding follows the entire path for a single motor or sensor. Marking tape was applied directly to every motor and sensor. It was then applied to the ends of the wires on the robot, near the connectors to the board. Obviously, you can see it applied to the wires on the board near the connector, to both ends of the PWM cables, on the breakers, and directly on the controllers themselves. For debugging purposes, you can't get much easier than that!
- We had two choices for ribbon cable... the rainbow one we got from FIRST Choice, or the plain gray one that was in the KoP. Needless to say, the students chose to go colorful.
- The current ratings are a good point, they went a little overboard on labeling a few of the fuses. Fortunately, we only use 12 and 14 gauge wire, so there's really no possibility of an issue with any of them!
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