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Originally Posted by akoscielski3
In my opinion, since it doesnt say anything anout it specifically then we dont need it to be legal.
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The rules don't specifically say you can use pool noodles to block frisebees....
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Originally Posted by pyroslev
I imagined any team that went to a previous week regional would have been able to shortcut things a bit but seeing the explanation that makes sense. Could a remedy to that be that when teams going to further events the Robot Inspectors sign the bag form with a copy of the inspection sheet? If not this season, then next season. I imagined the teams that went to previous events could inspected by noon at least if this were implemented.
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I don't think it's a good idea to give previously-inspected robots a pass or even an abbreviated inspection. I've found issues on robots that have passed inspection at
TWO regionals. If no one has ever found a problem on a robot I've inspected at that robot's next event I'd be shocked. We're human. On top of being human there are rookie inspectors, inspectors that aren't clear on [name your system], there are inspectors that are seeing their 15th robot in one day, and....
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Originally Posted by pyroslev
I had a large number of teams come to the Tech Support table with symptoms of radio drop outs well into Saturday. Their radios were not wired into the regulated 12v port on the Power distribution board. They were either into the non-regulated section of the board or the regulated 5v port. This concerns me as these teams had either passed inspection or had been partially completed.
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I found a robot like this last year (radio in a standard 12V circuit); asked the team why they did it that way. Answer was "we wired it that way last year." Why did you do it then? "That's how we wired it the year before." I explained why they needed to be in the regulated port & got a "huh...maybe that's why we've been having comm problems for the last two years."
