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Originally posted by Chris Nowak
it really depends on the regional. Midwest was easy for us. The guy went down the list in a couple of minutes, and was pretty lenient. At west michigan, it took about 10-15 minutes because they went through every last thing on the list very thouroughly. We still passed both completely, but it was interesting to see how the inspections differed.
The fastest complete inspection I did at Houston took 20 minutes. That was for a bare bones robot with no pnuematics and only two drive motors. Times went up from there depending on the robot's complexity and the messiness of the wiring or plumbing. Average was around 30 minutes, and in one case it took an hour because I thought there was something wrong and couldn't figure out what. I eventually caught the compressor in series with the pressure switch and the regulators in reverse order, but the wiring was so tangled it was hard to see.

So a helpful hint for next year. Make life easy on yourself and your inspectors, lay out your wiring and plumbling neatly and in a fashion that is easy to trace. Labels help alot too. The easier to trace things are, the less we think there is something to hide.
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