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Re: Bumper "Side" Clarification

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
..your robot must be 26" wide to intake a ball through the bumpers.
These balls are pretty squishy. You could get them through a much narrower passage if needed. (That said, we're lifting the ball over a continuous solid frame perimeter, using a gap in the bumpers to help keep things tight and low.)

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Originally Posted by WBCSaint View Post
So does the 8" of bumper have to be continuous? Or if you had a 4.5" section of bumper, then you use the Rhino bumper kit to have the rest of the 3.5" of bumper raised, would that still count as your 8" of bumper coverage?
I don't see anything forbidding this. Bumpers are not required to all be at the same height, or even horizontal along their length. However, given the hardware required to mount this, it would probably be easier and lighter to raise the whole corner.
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