[Kevin Sevcik]

Martin,

It sounds like this ruling only applies to stored energy shooters. So something that stretches surgical tubing, compresses springs, etc. to develop the impulse to launch the ball. That is, it only applies to shooters that store energy in the shooter itself. Systems that use separately stored energy like the pneumatics tanks or battery shouldn't need interlocks. Otherwise, you'd have to interlock motor powered shooters, drive wheels, and basically every high powered system on the robot.

I can't tell from your TBA picture how your shooter works. Does your shooter actually work in a stored energy configuration? If it works by simply firing a piston, then I don't think this applies to you, as it will only fire under command of the robot. If it works by mechanically locking a pressurized piston halfway, then releasing the lock, then you would have the option of starting matches with the pneumatics charged, but the piston depressurized and safe. Your option for safe transport off the field with an armed shooter would then be to open your dump valve.