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Re: Con-Fused....
Posted by Mike Dubreuil.

Student on team #175, Buzz, from Enrico Fermi High School and UTC/Hamilton Sundstrand.

Posted on 7/10/2000 3:03 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Con-Fused.... posted by Ken Patton on 7/10/2000 11:43 AM MST:



Well you have to look at the reasoning behind a rule like this: safety and so you don't fry anything. The only real gain we experienced was that if our 60 amp fuse blew we wouldn't be dead in the water. The circut would not allow any more than 60 amps. So, we did not receive a performance gain. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly we did not use the circut as 'the 60 amp fuse'. The 60 amper was still wired in but the circut would protect it.


: I didn't realize that people were doing this. Rule C1 in update #2 is pretty explicit: '... circuit breakers, and fuse may not be tampered with, modified or adjusted in any way...' Figure 2.1 in the rulebook is pretty explicit too.

: If there are any performance gains to be made - say, by allowing more motors at a given gear ratio - then I would question whether this is even within the spirit of the rules (its not within the letter in any case). It seems to me that the reason you would want to do this is to allow more stuff (features or performance) to go on in your robot at any given time.

: Does this have an effect on how much current you can draw in a transient condition (say, the initial start of the match)?

: Ken





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