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Originally Posted by Billfred
I can't pull up the section in the manual right now (so much time and so little to do...wait a second), but I believe they regulated the breaker size by the wire gauge this year.
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You're right that the wire size was tied to the breaker used, but that would just allow a team to put 12 AWG on a Globe motor, and to connect it to a 40 A breaker—it only specified minimum gauges, not maximums.
I've been informed that there was in fact an incident at the Championship last year where this occurred, and, though the inspector noted the hazard, after consulting the lead inspector, it was determined that since the 2005 rules didn't prohibit it specifically, the inspector couldn't reject it at that stage. (Only if some unsafe operation occurred during a match, could the referees then have had the robot disabled, under <S01>.) As hazards go, this one has the potential to turn ugly.
The 2004 rule was more conservative, and is likely the one that Luke recalls.