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Re: Electrical Board Mounting

because of the very limited space we had this year, we mounted everything in four (reasonably close together) sections.
-we mounted the cRIO sideways along the back of our robot on a sheet of lexan.
-the PD board, the jaguars and some victors were on 3 sheets of shelf liner which was attatched to the aluminum bottom of the robot.
(after some testing, we found that 3 layers shelf liner was an inexpensive way to provide excellent shock absorbing. )

-the DSC was mounted up and to the left. it was inaccessible in its original location down in the bottom of the robot.
-the final section was sideways on the left of the robot on a sheet of lexan. it contained the main breaker and the rest of the victors.

this setup might sound very spread out, but it was so compact, we were worried about the Jaguars overheating. because of this we mounted one of the server fans above the whole setup, and the wireless bridge was next to that.

we learned about wire management the hard way.
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