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Re: 2005 FIRST Robotics Confernce: Electrical Conference... A call for ideas!

One of the major things I think would be useful would be the basics of electricity talking about waveforms and why you can do some things but not others. (Like swapping wires on a speed controller to reverse direction)

Talk about grounding and why it is important

I would also talk about wire gauge and why specific gauges are chosen for specific applications.

The difference between varying voltage and pwm for speed control

The difference between amperage and voltage


I will not be at the seminar but these are common topics that come up on my teams and at competitions
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