[Patrick Wang]

If you remember Woodie Talking in the kickoff, he said that they had run tests on the primary breaker being supplied to the teams.

The breaker is somewhat slow blow.

I believe one of the earlier team updates has to results for the test but basically this is what woodie said in the kickoff.

-the breaker will last 1 min 48 seconds at 100 amps

-the breaker will last 8 seconds at 200 amps.

The smaller fuses (for each motor) are fast blow on the other hand.

If you draw over their limit for about 1-2 seconds they will blow, but will reset within the span of a match.

However you should design your robot such that none of your fuses blow, if you lose power even to a small fuse in the match, you are effectively vulnerable for about 30 seconds as we found out through a bad crimp in the 2000 competition.

Hope that answers some questions.