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Re: Con-Fused....
Posted by Matt Leese.

Student on team #7 from Parkville High School and NASA, Black & Decker, AAI, Raytheon.

Posted on 7/10/2000 7:12 PM MST


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



: 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.

I think that rule refers to tampering or modifing the ACTUAL circuit breaker or fuse (i.e. taking the 60 amp fuse apart) but doesn't refer to how they are wired. I don't think FIRST could really have much of a problem with this as we are already wiring a 30 amp breakers inline between most things and the 60 amp fuse (at least my team did -- it was easiest to use the transmission blocks that FIRST provided...). The only thing that has changed is that they we'd then be running three 30 amp circuit breakers in parallel as a master breaker over all the others. I don't remember any particular rule banning anything like that (I don't have a rule book handy and don't feel like downloading it). If you can come up with anything else that wouldn't permit it, I'd be interested in knowing.

Matt Leese





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