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Originally Posted by Austin
What do you use the ignition switch for? To turn on/off the power to the LEDs, Neon lights, OI?
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The Ignition is a disabler for the built-in dongle. When the key is not inserted, or turned to the right, it acts as "diabled", otherwise, it enables it.
Next to it is a safety switch for autonomous testing, which is more or less a joke on our programmers.
Here's the story...
We were showing some of the high-up engineers who wanted to see what we had done so far the robot. And, this happened to be the first night that it could move. SO, we had it on the field, and we had it wired correctlly (this time) and everythign was great. Well, Aucther, one of our programmers, told me to flip a dial on the joystick (filter), all the way down, as i would get ore acceleration. Whups. As i tapped the sticks to see which way the bot was facing, it flew towards our team leader and the group of engineers. another tap in the oppisite direction sent it into the wall. I pulled the key, and almost strangled mike. Your a good guy thou, aucther!
Anyways, the switch is "on" when we are testing our very dangerous robot, and it moves on its own, so we have to take extra caution!