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Originally Posted by Billfred
Iron Kings have been working on their pit area this off-season, and it's obvious that our setup would benefit from more lighting.
The pit was about the size of an FRC crate on its side, split down the long way on a hinge. We've cut down one of those halves to table height for an additional work surface, and the plan is to build storage and a charging station underneath. (We're still deciding if we want or need the other side--not being able to drag more crap to an event may be addition by subtraction.)
LED strip lighting seems like the obvious answer for the storage portion, but I'd like to know what other teams have tried for both storage and working spaces. What worked, or just as important what didn't work?
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I personally haven't dealt with pit lighting I tried to convince my team about getting some last year (our rookie year) however funding wasn't best for it. But one of our good friends and travel mates team 5816 (GRA-V) had a great idea of using I believe LED spotlights, like those you can mount on the top of your car, and they would run the set of four mounted above their pit off of two extra robot batteries and charge those overnight.Idk where they got them but LED car lights aren't a bad idea because they already 12v and you could easily use a battery or inverter plugged into a power strip to power them.