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Originally Posted by Cory
I don't see how you think this is correct. ...I don't see any room for interpretation. ....
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I disagree completely. The rules add the words "prorated" and "on the basis".
If I have to buy a box of ten gyros, and I only use 1, I can sell the other 9 on ebay to get the money back, or I can sell them to other teams, or I can use them for spares, or I can use them next year.
The BOM represents the cost of building one robot, the one that is on the field. If I have to keep buying off the shelf parts to replace after every match, that cost is not accumulated into the BOM.
If wire only comes in 100 foot spools, and I use 1 foot of wire, then I dont have 100 feet of wire on my robot - why would have to account as if I did?
Prorated means the cost of the whole sheet times the percent used.
On the basis - means
based on the price of the smaller sheet, not on the largest sheet you can find.
look at it this way: If gyros only come in boxes of ten, and I buy ten, but use one, but I have to put the cost of ten on my BOM, then why not use ten gyros on my robot?
accounting that way makes no sense from an engineering perspective - the value (cost) of having ten gyros on my robot is clearly ten times the value (and cost) of only having one. The fact that Digikey decides to sell them on cut tape with ten per order, or 100 per reel, has nothing to do with the functionality or value of that part, except for establishing the price per part.