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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
According to the initial scenario, the extra motor is sitting on the sidelines, possibly attached to the unused assembly; the robot is competing with one drill motor, attached to the other assembly ("one mechanism is on Redabot"). I don't think that we're looking at the same situation here--aren't you stating that the second motor is also present ("mounted and already hooked into the system")?
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You're right. We are looking at different scenarios. As described, during inspection, the extra drill motor is nowhere to be found on either mechanism; it's back in the pit somewhere. The team shows up at the inspection station with the base, Jumpy, Grabby, and one drill motor to swap between them. The drill motor is swapped to whichever mechanism is in play. This sounds mostly legal to me.
The issue is that later, the team installs an extra drill motor into the other mechanism so that now there is no more swapping a drill motor back and forth between mechanisms. Ever.
Presumably, if you weighed in now, you'd weigh in the base, Jumpy, Grabby, and
two drill motors. The extra drill motor would put you over weight, because it's sitting there attached to the other mechanism and is being counted on weight now. To make weight, you would have to look the inspector in the eye and tell him/her that the other drill motor there is just a spare and shouldn't count against you. Yes, it's attached to the part and fully integrated and all, but it's just a spare. This is the problem we "illegal" types have, because at this point we see that the robot is clearly over weight because the new motor is now attached and we can't understand how it could possibly be considered a spare now.