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Originally Posted by ZInventor
our team found out that our robot was a very efficient vann-de-graff generator ( we have super-fuzzy paint rollers spinning against PVC!!!, oh and di i mention, there are two, one at the top, and one at the bottom, with surgical tubin in between...)
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Wow! Our robot is very similar in terms of generating static. Our ball collecting mechanism is many brushes made out of pneumatic tubing spinning really fast (like the front brush of many household vacuums) and we are generating a lot of static..
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Originally Posted by ZInventor
i've been shocked many times, and at the PDX regional, several robots would drive across the field, hit the wall, discharge the static and die...
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Die, meaning communications being dropped? Driver stations fried? cRio fried?
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I hope this whole fiasco is figured out before championships!!!!!
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Hehe, I hope it is figured out before Week six events
But good luck to everyone!
keehun
Team 2502
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