[Al Skierkiewicz]

Bob,
I understand that if the problem is regolith to carpet and a team has a chain that contacts the carpet before they hit a field border, then it may work as the discharge path is carpet to robot. In looking at Bill's Blog and the suggestion that carpets be made wet at the field borders, there seems to be mounting evidence that the floor materials are the prime fault. When we walk out and set the robot on the playing field, it then becomes the same charge as the Regolith. As robots move about, the charge builds up constantly on all robots as the interface between the FRP and carpet gets exercised. I would like to see if an experiment consisting of wire under the FRP and across the carpet to the field border might work better than water on the carpet. 3M makes a nice product that is a copper foil with a conductive adhesive that could easily be added to the field and would not likely produce any serious change in game play. The tape is available in various widths and can be purchased from Digikey.