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Don't count on relief from this rule...
After an initial promising response from FIRST (a request for a proposal for a new M11 concerning springs), updates 7, 8 and 9 have had no mention of relief from the 30 Joule limit.
I suppose that it is not going to happen. I think this is a silly rule, but if FIRST has the rule it is a rule. I recommend that you design your robot without counter balance or figure out a way to do it within the rules as currently written. Remember that compressing the smallest gas spring from Small Parts Inc. before the match would violate this rule. FIRST has called for Gracious Professionalism with regard to this rule, but I don't know exactly where gracious professionalism leads me in this case. Is it gracious professionalism for me to look the other way when I see a robot with an illegal amount of spring energy? Is that fair to the teams that tried to live with the rules FIRST sets, no matter how unreasonable? I don't like this rule, but at this point, it is getting a little late in the game to change things now... ...I still think FIRST should change the rule but I am torn again about teams that have tried to live with the rule as it is. Time will tell... Joe J. |
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