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Originally Posted by GearsOfFury
On this year's inspection checklist - which is used as the "official" tracking document at the regionals I've inspected at - there is a section for re-inspection sign-off:
http://www.usfirst.org//sites/defaul...list_Rev-B.pdf
(Reference the "Reinsp" and "Final Insp (initial)" areas). It appears on last year's form, as well:
http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...nChecklist.pdf
I don't know if this section is used religiously, because I've never been an inspector on Saturday afternoon. To me, in general, the official re-inspection should be tracked here, particularly if it's not done by the LRI. |
At the Arizona Regional, we used that exact 2014 form and the location in the upper right of the form to denote a passed Final Inspection for Eliminations along with an additional different initialed colored sticker on the white inspection sticker on the bot.
I also happen to notice on those forms, and the captain and mentor should as well since they had to sign the form (you read everything you sign, right?), that the following words appear under the Electrical section:
2013 form - "Battery - A
single MK ES17-12 battery or a
single EnerSys NP18-12 must be securely fastened to robot. <R34 & R35 >"
2014 form - "Battery - A
single EnerSys NP18-12 battery or listed equivalent, terminals insulated, must be securely fastened to robot. <R31,
R32, R33>. Check all batteries for compliance."
Not sure where the ambiguity on legality is. The whys of what happened are irrelevant as the bot should never have been presented for Final Inspection with more than one battery on it, connected or not.
I guess I equate the DQ in the same frame of mind as to how the Arizona Regional Head Referee answered a question in the driver meeting regarding ball possession..."Don't make us have to determine whether it was or not." Even if the Final Inspection document was provided, it would have explicitly said that a single battery was allowed and the robot was presented on the field with more than one.