Thread: Voltage on Frame
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Re: Voltage on Frame
Each year, we build most of the robot on the frame before taking stuff off to have the frame welded (it's initially bolted together). We didn't take off electronics last year and the electromagnetic field caused by the welding completely fried all the electronics... that little messup cost us about $1000. Moral of story - large EM fields are bad around the electronics.
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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls