[Mike Betts]

Years ago, my team did a massive redesign after a pre-ship scrimmage and shipped a robot without a single wire attached. Needless to say, it was a busy day in the pits for me and my electrical team... We still had many wires loose when, at the urging of the inspectors, we began inspection (it was supposed to be a partial mechanical only).

I was soldering a wire to a motor and had a student crimping a ring lug on another wire when the inspector (on the other side of the robot from us) got to the power-up part of the checklist and told the students to power up the robot...

Which they did...

I was not a happy camper...