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Re: pic: Electrical Board Top View

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Originally Posted by team63 View Post
...it was designed to help in weight distribution with the battery as a major weight factor.
I actually did an aircraft-style "weight & balance" calculation on our controls. I wanted to find out exactly how far to the side the cRIO had to be in order to evenly balance everything. It came out very nice.

In the end, removing one of the Digital Sidecars and some of the NI modules messed with the results somewhat. I do think lightness is more important than perfect balance, so I'm not upset at all.