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Originally Posted by EricH
There were a number of ways to eliminate unsafe launching and declare a minimum weight equivalent to the FTC battery. Minibots must contact the tower during the entire deployment, minibots must have a minimum weight of X, the list goes on. Instead of one that allows for stored-energy designs, they went with the most restrictive rule they could. After teams had already started their FIRST Choice ordering.
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Eric,
You aren't really taking mechanism failure into account. Just saying that a robot has to be constantly touching the bar during ascent, doesn't mean that it will happen in actuality. When you consider vibration, massive collisions, robot failures, having a 15 pound spring loaded vehicle on your robot is incredibly hard to make safe, let lone the damage it could pose to your own robot's internal systems.