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Re: Van De Graff effect on shooter

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Originally Posted by Mike AA
We haven't had this problem this year but last year every time we would walk away to get a part and return while it was being worked on we would get a little zap and could see the sparks from fingers or metal tool to the robot. But this was totally the effect from a very dry room and very old, dry carpet. Solved this by making the floor damp. Maybe you need to wipe down your PVC?

-Mike
To correct myself, after further testing we too had this problem, during testing saturday night my dad had his finger just slightly off the edge of the Aluminum frame and would get a zap about every other ball.

Likely in purdue we will try a dragging chain or something. It seems it would be VERY bad for the controler to have all this static.

-Mike