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Originally posted by Mercutio
If memory serves me, you have to rub against something pretty quickly to build up a static charge. I don't see how your wheels could spin fast enough to charge the plastic unless you are having serious traction problems. Have you checked on that?
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This is not the case. We have observed this situation with the robot in disabled mode. We manually slid our robot back and forth a few inches a couple of times (for a total wheel skid of maybe 6 inches on the HDPE) and pushed it down the ramp. The sound from the arc was loud enough that even one of our engineers sitting by the player station heard it.
Back to Al's original question: have any other teams noticed anything like this? Specifically how about Midwest teams stuck in this dry, cold weather like us?