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Re: Electrical Board Mounting
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Originally Posted by Steven Sigley View Post
Our Electronics Panel was one double sided piece of lexan which rested on 2 pieces of aluminum on our robot, here are some pictures.

Always use bolts to mount (except the gaming adapter, zip ties for that), and zip ties to organize.


http://www.vandenrobotics.com/plogge...icture&id=2837

http://www.vandenrobotics.com/plogge...icture&id=2814
I was never going to use zip ties but people on my team said other people use them.

Our board last year was an "L" shape on the side of the robot. It was all aluminum but the cRIO was on a piece of polycarbonate bolted on with plastic screws. Everything else was put on aluminum boards with bolts and the holes where tapped to save on weight.

This year we started off with a flat piece of aluminum with all the electronics mounted on there. The cRIO was sitting on a piece of polycarbonate but somehow metal screws were used to fasten it to the board. So after that one of our mentors got scared about grounding and had us switch to a full poly carbonate board in an "L" shape. We used plastic screws to fasten everything to the polycarbonate.