Thread: How do you wire a rotating component?
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Re: How do you wire a rotating component?
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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
The slip rings shown in the post above use mercury and as such have been ruled to be illegal on our robots.
That isn't quite right, they have been ruled legal in this year's competition: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread...hlight=mercury. (I believe there were similar Q&As since at least '06, but I never really paid them much mind - my team always used the bundle as close to centre as possible approach)
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