[gallo26]

I've been studying the picture, and I'm not sure if anyone has said this, so i apologize if you have. To make my point more clear, I'll put a picture below.

FIRST has been trying to cut back on costs. So realizing that, Lexan, as previously mentioned, is expensive. FIRST wouldn't cut back on costs, and spend money on tons of lexan for rail supports for 32+ fields. In my opinion, that lexan part is merely a mount for a counter sensor. It'll detect some ball or round object.

In the middle of the poles, there are holes, larger than necessary, for a screw head to go through and not to interfere with any game element rolling down it. On the pole, towards the top, there is a hole identical to that. It doesn't appear to be a reflection or refraction from anything BUT that pole the lexan is mounted to. You can see the pins from that pole too. The only issue is that hole does NOT appear on the front most pole visible to us.

My hypothesis is it's a mounting hole. As i said the lexan is merely a strong support for a sensor (because the software guys on my team HATE it when weak mounts break and they lose a sensor). This rail system will be mounted on the outside of the field. Somewhere. and this is just some junction to count the scored balls. Longer poles, curved poles, whatever, will connect to this. But that single hole makes me believe its mounting somewhere on the outside, or even the inside, of the field. But on the side of something.



Thoughts or comments on this??