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Originally Posted by yash101
Sorry. I just got home from school. I don't have one yet, but I was thinking of a very small shunt. The main point of this would be to find shorts. Also, I don't think it is illegal. You can have things between motors, as long as they don't change the power. In this case, the power difference would be so minuscule, that it would just be ignored.
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Ahem. Please Read the Rules Carefully.
You're almost correct, but you're missing one minor detail: It's power
pathways that can't be changed (R54, 2013 rules)--if changing the power was all, there's a number of things that could probably be really bad that could happen. Except, as noted, for low-impedance current monitoring, such that the effect on outputs is inconsequential. Hmmm... how hard would it be to get a current sensor, wire it into the robot's own control system, and have a way to store and extract data from it? Hmmm... Must think about that one for a few minutes.
Yep. Totally possible, and plausible. You're the programmer, you get to figure out how to pop up the current info for any motor at any point during a match and/or log it for future reference. (Hint: I know it CAN be done.)
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