is anyone wanting a lot of lights (decorative) on the robot?

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Posted by Rimple Bhakta at 2/3/2001 6:02 PM EST


Other on team #438, Gladiators, from Jack Yates High School and Mrs. Reagan Flowers.



wasup...
i'm rimple bhakta (go by 'rimp')

well i'm into lights a lot from blacklights
to neon lights...
and i suggested to our team about putting some
cool mini stobe lights and blacklights facn the bottom to relfect off the carpet ...
is anyone else thinking bout putting more lights

visit www.secme-jackyates.com
(im the web animation guy)

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Posted by Josh at 2/3/2001 7:01 PM EST


Engineer on team #419, Rambots, from Wentworth Institute of Technology.


In Reply to: is anyone wanting a lot of lights (decorative) on the robot?
Posted by Rimple Bhakta on 2/3/2001 6:02 PM EST:



: wasup...
: i'm rimple bhakta (go by 'rimp')

: well i'm into lights a lot from blacklights
: to neon lights...
: and i suggested to our team about putting some
: cool mini stobe lights and blacklights facn the bottom to relfect off the carpet ...
: is anyone else thinking bout putting more lights

: visit www.secme-jackyates.com
: (im the web animation guy)

I work at a car dealership at home, and in a used car, we found base runner halogen lamps. You know, the ones that go under your car and make the road under your car glow. the are small enough that we were thinking of mounting them on the bottom of the robot. However, now that we actually catch air from going over that bar under the divider, it might be a little rough on the lighting.

Josh
Team 419
"Wha?"

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Posted by Nick at 2/3/2001 9:37 PM EST


Student on team #240, Mach V, from Jefferson Monroe High School and Visteon.


In Reply to: Re: is anyone wanting a lot of lights (decorative) on the robot?
Posted by Josh on 2/3/2001 7:01 PM EST:



Lights have the potential to suck a lot of power and I'm almost positive that FIRST said all decorations that require power must be ran off the 12V Exide. Just thought I'd remind you.

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Posted by Nate Smith at 2/4/2001 1:38 PM EST


Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.


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Posted by Nick on 2/3/2001 9:37 PM EST:



: Lights have the potential to suck a lot of power and I'm almost positive that FIRST said all decorations that require power must be ran off the 12V Exide. Just thought I'd remind you.

Rule M9:
Teams may add "non-functional" decorations to robots under the following conditions:
...
- Decorations MAY draw power from the control system...

C20: During each competition match, your robot may contain only one of the two batteries provided by FIRST.

My take on this is that you can have another battery to power any decorations that you want, as long as it's not the other one that you got in the kit. However, there's the whole weight issue all over again...

Nate

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Posted by Rimple Bhakta at 2/5/2001 2:12 PM EST


Other on team #438, Gladiators, from Jack Yates High School and Mrs. Reagan Flowers.


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Posted by Nate Smith on 2/4/2001 1:38 PM EST:



what about using a different
battery source and not the
ones FIRST gave us?

so it will be the FIRST battery running the robot
and our decorative battery for the lights

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Posted by Nate Smith at 2/6/2001 1:52 PM EST


Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.


In Reply to: Re: What FIRST Says...And my take on it...
Posted by Rimple Bhakta on 2/5/2001 2:12 PM EST:



: what about using a different
: battery source and not the
: ones FIRST gave us?

: so it will be the FIRST battery running the robot
: and our decorative battery for the lights

As long as the "decorative" battery is easily seen that it's different from the FIRST battery, I don't see a problem with this...after all, the only rule I see about # of batteries is C20 - During each competition match, your robot may contain only one of the two batteries provided by FIRST. The way I see that, you could put a different battery in, as long as it was isolated from the control system(and make the isolation easy to see). I would recommend e-mailing Eric at FIRST to get the official ruling on this, however...

Nate