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Originally posted by KenWittlief
4 Gauge wire: against the rules specified by FIRST - your bot would fail a critical inspection. Putting heavier gauge wire on the battery or other circuits reduces the resisitance, and will give you an (UNFAIR) advantage over teams that followed the rules.
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http://jive.ilearning.com/thread.jsp...=6177 67#3043
We used 4 AWG wire and connectors rated at 120 amps. Apparently our team and 696 were the only ones to do this.
We never thought of it as a competitive advantage, when we decided to do it, it was because of safety.