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Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung
How were they allowed to play in elims with illegal motors? Did you bring it up to the inspectors or the referees?
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It was brought to the attention of inspectors during the course of eliminations, who, after a brief check of the robot in question, examined the manual, discussed it amongst themselves, and subsequently opted to take no action. Why they chose not to I can only speculate.
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Originally Posted by marshall
Must be an automotive motor.
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I would love to see the car that has a linear actuator on it.
I'm not trying to point fingers at the team in this case, my guess is they just didn't know any better, but if inspectors cannot identify illegal motors or can but choose to not intervene, there's a problem somewhere.
Also, I'm pretty sure the actuator in question is one of
these, and per the discussion in
this thread, could be used but only if the motor was switched out for an FRC legal motor and the internal switches bypassed.