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Originally Posted by MulletFish
It seems to me that having a totally detachable electronics board would be a good thing. I am envisioning all of the motors, fans, sensors - anything that is attached to the robot frame - connected to 1 or 2 harnesses. When you want to change out a Victor you simply detach the harness and pull out the electronics board and voila!
Is this a good idea? The problems I see are voltage drop along the connections and heat. What do you think? Thanks.
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It seems like this would work. In past years, we have fixed the robot half of the battery connector to the robot to allow quick one-handed disconnect of the battery. If you transfer this to the entire electronics board, it would allow better access I guess.
One thing to think about is, you need to maintain the wire gauge throughout, so when you use the heavy gauge wire for the motors, and try to gang that up for four or more motors, along with whatever other wiring, it can get a bit hard to work with.
Other than that, go for it!