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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 7/7/2000 7:21 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: 3X30 posted by Jerry Eckert on 7/6/2000 11:11 PM MST:



As the the rules you site, you make good points. Perhaps I have been involved too long in FIRST. The rules from year to year are blurring in my mind. I honestly remembered the rule to be something along the lines of 'only things on the electrical components list may be used to conduct electricity.' Reading the rules more closely, I concede that it seems to be a stretch of the rules.

All I can say is FIRST folks have known about it for years and have never said it was illegal. One of the teams that used the technique told me they were given the green light as well. Beyond this, FIRST folks were involved in looking for teams that might be interested in the 'loaners' we had available at the Nationals.

Anyway, I don't think the spirit of the rules were broken by allowing teams conduct LESS current than the 60 Amp fuse would provide (though for a shorter period of time).

Going forward, I hope that FIRST makes this option explicitly legal. It is a needless worry for a number of teams.

Joe J.


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