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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Nice work! Now I think we just need to see the non-clippard plastic tanks tested.
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We'd love to! Anyone want to donate to the cause?
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Personally, I don't really care about the rate of failure for any tank... it's the specific failure mode that concerns me.
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Agreed on all points. While the black clippard tanks are an improvement over the white ones the potential for a very serious failure still exists. There was at least one team at NECHAMPS that elected to add lexan shielding around their exposed tanks after some tubing got ripped out of them during aggressive play. The line between tubing getting pulled out and the tank getting crunched seems pretty hairy to me. Under very slightly different circumstances that could have resulted in field crew getting hit with shrapnel.
If FIRST is to continue to allow these tanks they should,
at a minimum, dictate rules about locating and shielding them from any possible robot/robot interaction. But if you can rationalize a rule set about that then, surely, you can rationalize just not allowing their use in the first place.