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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Apologies for the picture, it was the best I could get out of my phone. Looks like ty has a better one:the point is that gold piece is flush with the bottom of the lexan plate you have to raise. Most of the drum and winch lifts I've seen posted will probably hit that metal channel before they move the lexan enough to trigger it.

Thank you for being so forthcoming with this information and for the second photo (that clearly shows the problem). I can't believe that this was left out of the field videos and manual; our team wouldn't have found out about this until our first event and our mechanism absolutely wouldn't have worked as designed. It also would have been hard to modify the mechanism as the climber was designed to sit at the max height of the robot (so there would be no way to add an extension above it). It is frustrating that this oversight will cause a lot of teams' climbers to fail and potentially damage their robots. FIRST really should add this to the next update.