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Originally Posted by geezloueez
Hello FRC community,
I am a first year mentor for a rookie team. Many of the students on my team are very novice as far as experience. What are some good ways to keep the kids from starting fires, blowing things up, and damaging electronic hardware. I really want to keep the kids within budget and out of the hospital while creating good practices for the students.
Thanks all!!!
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Do not drill around the electronics. Covering them MAY help but swarf (small fragments of metal and metal dust) is notorious for shorting out things when you can least afford them.
Do not trust that polarity has been followed properly, even in Kit-Of-Parts parts. Backwards wired Anderson connectors cost one of my former teams 6 motor controllers and it only took a second to happen.
Understand the safety requirements for EVERY tool and why those requirements are there. Tools are powerful and can really help build a robot but they can also be very dangerous to the untrained.