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Originally Posted by cad321
We used a similar system at palmetto thus year. We used the guts of a cordless drill and connected our arm pivot motor to it (variable speed trigger on the drill). During one of our Elim matches, we were told it was not legal to use. I can't remember specifics however it was because of a similar ruling as with off board compressors.
The motor was not being controlled 1) by the robots power supply for that match (simple fix, use the battery currently on the bot) and 2) the signal controlling the motor did not originate at the roborio.
So assuming this follows over to other tournaments, the only legal course of action in my opinion then is powering up and connecting to the roborio.
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If you're saying this motor power system was completely off-board and only connected outside of a match.... I don't think that's correct and I'd want a Q&A on it. The rules only require that a robot be legal and inspected when placed on the field for a match. It doesn't have to be legal in your pits or in queue or something. The off-board compressor rules are probably the only exception to that for safety and fairness reasons.
G10 does state that you can't tether to the robot after a match, and tether is defined as any wired or wireless connection to control or energize part of the robot. So your drill guts wouldn't be legal for driving a mechanism before you get off the field.