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Re: Separate Powered Flashlights?

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Yeah, I hear you on that. Actually, I have a relevant story...

A few years ago, in a non-FIRST competition, the organizers were asked multiple times if "all power must turn off when Big Red Button is pressed" meant that "no electrons are flowing at all including in computing devices". The answer, multiple times, was "yes, that's what it means". My team spent a lot of time getting our onboard laptop to run off one of the two onboard 12V batteries (IIRC, that was our method for complying with the rule--meant removing the battery). Anybody want to guess why the rule was changed at competition to allow the computers to run after the button press?

At least FIRST doesn't do that very often...
This was at NASA Lunabotics in 2012 (or maybe 2011), right? I remember that. My team had written code such that when the big red button was pressed it issued a shutdown command on the laptop, so it didn't immediately shut off all power but was our attempt at complying with that rule.

Sorry for going off-topic.
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