[Roger]

I'm sure by Tuesday's Team Update time they'll give the explainations and maybe some solutions. I don't know how Dean Kamen is in private but the way things were going in Manchester at the flagship FIRST event I would not blame him for being angry, but angry at what? Giving him the spritz bottle at least gave him something positive to do and walk off the frustration.

I hope someone is reviewing the tapes and seeing how the robots are situated prior to the field zaps. Thinking about it the air locks are the only metal to robot that may electrically connect to the Alliance station wall.

Our robot is a van de Graaf generator with it's vertical corkscrew design. We've grounded the metal frame to the floor but the floor obviously isn't taking it. A parent/mentor/electrician grounded our FRP floor, but only one 4x8 panel, on the small hope that the FRP can carry the charge across. There was limited success on that. Even just sitting in place spinning creates quite a charge.

Everyone knows to ground themselves before touching the driver station, and touch the metal frame before working on the robot itself.