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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I did ask one team to dry fire their mechanism at Lake Superior, and it really didn't seem to be a problem. We then had a different robot that got into a continuous dry-fire exercise on the field that started disassembling their mechanism. Things held together enough that parts didn't go more than a foot or two, though.
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This is a different discussion, but teams really need to remember that they have an e-stop button and that there is no real penalty for using it.
This particular team could have cut the damage to their shooting mechanism in half if they had e-stopped before the field staff got to their driver's station and gave them a hand with pressing the button.
I saw similar incidents more than once at Lake Superior. If your robot is damaging itself, the electronics fall out, your battery starts dancing, or your robot is no longer vertical, hit the button!