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Re: "Black Box" Electrical Board

This idea is relevant to a robotics team I was on at the university level. We used talons on this lunar rover for the NASA Lunabotics Lunar Mining Competition and they along with the rest of the sensitive electronics had to be fully enclosed because real lunar regolith (real regolith simulant used by NASA) will absolutely destroy motors, actuators, circuits, and clog any possible crevice because it also has an electrostatic charge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaodHQC_MIo

We used these "black boxes" you see on either side to house our electrical systems and we plugged in with military grade dust proof connectors. They do work for FRC as well, but you may want to check for heat generation inside of the box and really see if simple fans will work. There are free heat conduction simulators online. It is really easy to make these boxes a nest of wires so use caution.
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