16-08-2016, 13:44
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,584
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Re: FIRST on "The Fosters" - Monday Nights on FreeForm 8e/5p Starting Tonight!
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Originally Posted by techtiger1
Did anyone else find the bit about the 120.5 lb robot funny. Maybe it 's because my team is always so close on weight. I also could be wrong but at one point I was told by a regional inspector there is a .5 lb tolerance because of the accuracy of the scales. This could have been because at this event the scale was known to be off by a certain amount.
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Never experienced this kind of tolerance. If you're over by .1 lbs you have to go under. Weight is probably the most rigid constraint in FRC, even with the variance in scales.
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