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Originally Posted by Hoover
But what if we get to the competition and the inspector interprets the rules that we have to have this on a controller? Then what controller? It seems silly to waste a Talon on something like this. Perhaps a relay instead? Still it has to be turned on via the program so it isn't running when the robot it disabled.
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Originally Posted by Gregor
Why?
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Read the
whole paragraph, especially the first sentence, beginning with "But what if".
The bottom line is that the rules really don't provide clear, unambiguous situations on fans. Some places they're in the list of motors, other places, they're not on the list of motors. If I were of such a mind, I could probably put together a rather tight case that there is no legal way to power an electrical fan that is not part of a COTS computing device on an FRC robot, either switched or unswitched.
Perhaps the best solution is to use a paper fan, and drive it with pneumatics.
