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Originally Posted by scca229
Can I ask a simple question? How BRIGHT is this LED assembly that would destroy the LEDs over the period of a match? The retro-reflective tape doesn't require all that much illumination and I'm now worried about a proverbial "light cannon" (as I've heard robot mounted flashlights called recently) shining into the opposing drive teams eyes. Remember that you aren't just on level ground but tilted if you are crossing the defenses at all.
Just curious is all...
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It's pretty much as bright as the ring light in FIRST Choice, but with much higher light per surface area(the ring light has 15 LEDs and outputs 304 lumen, meaning ~20 lumen per LED, whereas our assembly has 3 LEDs in total and outputs ~275 lumen(LED guy quote), so about ~90 lumen per LED). I'm trying to keep the light disabled as much as possible because of the nuisance factor. At the moment, it's only turned on when the robot is aiming towards the goal, which shouldn't take longer than 3 seconds(and the aim method has a 10 second timeout).