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Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish
there was an idea floating around to blast the breakers with some liquid nitro or pack em with dry ice so they wouldnt trip. i dont know if anyone did it tho or even if they were allowed to
I know that in the past there have indeed been teams that have done this. While it's not forbidden in the rules, what you're really talking about is trying to get around a safety issue by modifying your breakers to a lower temperature so they don't trip. This is NOT a good idea. Tripping breakers shouldn't happen in the first place if everything is properly designed. The one exception may be during finals where you have back to back to back matches and breakers and motors heat up over extended use.

The most common way to cool your breakers is to take some of that keyboard cleaning compressed air. For long days of demonstrations, we've used compressed air to cool our motors down. However, this is honestly a pretty terrible engineering practice, and is NOT recommended.
 


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