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Re: Light powering - voltages?

Did you check the Field Manuals on the Green Light Assy. They may have listed power source and such. As a matter of fact I'll go look that up now. Ok I just remembered that the Green Light is controlled by the arena controller and is powered from the same area as well so it is safe to say it has to be a 12vdc power source within the arena controller. The arena controller gets 120vac and then breaks it up for the competition controller, vision target, sensors and whatever the game is designed around. Boy does it pay off to be part of a field assy & dis-assy crew. Kinda remembered that from 2006. But then again the Target was above the station so maybe instead of having the wire come up through the rug they'll have a remote power source in the middle of the field. We'll I can't find anything in the field manuals as far as how it will be wired except that if a robot intereacts with the wiring the robot will be disabled / penalized or something like that. Which leads me to believe that the wiring may travel under the the rug and up the center of the rack and then terminate to each of the Targets.
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.

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