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Re: Con-Fused....
Posted by Ken Patton.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 7/11/2000 3:41 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Con-Fused.... posted by Mike Dubreuil on 7/10/2000 3:03 PM MST:




Does it really make the system safer? Specifically how?

It doesn't change the likelihood that you will fry something, other than the 60A fuse itself (and thats what its there for).

As you say, you experienced a gain because you would not be dead in the water due to a 60 amp fuse blowing. Why would your 60 amp fuse tend to blow? My guess is because you were on the ragged edge in terms of motors being driven at one time, or gear ratios chosen for robot speed, or both. What would you say to teams that didn't use Joe's mod, but instead backed off on gear ratio a little and settled for less speed than you guys did? Do you think it was an equal playing field?

The fact that people are doing this doesn't bother me as much as it surpises me. Its technically cheating isn't it?

Ken


: 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.


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