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Re: Charged system during inspection?
Slightly off-topic but related cautionary comment:
Relying on a charged pneumatic system to keep your robot in its legal starting configuration can be risky. One extreme scenario has occurred when robots are on the field, ready for the first match of the day, and a visiting dignitary makes a longer-than-anticipated speech.*
I have seen teams DQ'd when their pneumatically constrained appendages sagged out of starting configuration after 20+ minutes sitting idle during opening ceremonies. A slow air leak that would not otherwise be a problem, became one.
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*A 30 minute check for slow air leaks is sometimes called a Kamen Test. Dean is not the only visiting dignitary who waxes eloquent, but he does have the highest visibility.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
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 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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