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Originally Posted by rwkling1
This is at least what my mentors told me. Using a spring is fine by the standards of the rules, but they're not necessarily liked by safety inspectors, depending on the size. Small ones are fine, but when you get large and strong springs it becomes questionable.
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Like Nate said, design your robot to be safe. Inspectors will not allow unsafe robots to pass inspection when it comes to those robot mechanisms that require the inspectors opinion to pass. If you can demonstrate the system is safe, reliable, and will not dry fire when bumped/touched you should be just fine. Make sure you can release the stored energy when you need to and when your robot is chilling in your pit, que line, or really anywhere you don't need to launch a ball don't keep energy in the system.
We intend that our shooter can have the energy released quickly, safely from the system, and could even start the match without stored energy/tensioned springs.