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Unread 14-04-2003, 22:06
Chris Nowak Chris Nowak is offline
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Originally posted by ChrisH
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.
yeah, we had a very very neat robot and I think the inspectors liked us. Cant say anything about nats inspection though because I was off with the scouting team, and our backup driver handles inspection most of the time anyway. cuz I am on the animation team. Also, I dont know about those times, I was probably exaggerating, but the only problem we had AT ALL was that one of the inspectors suggested that we round the corners down a bit. That was at West Michigan. But again, I have no idea how nats inspection went.
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