Smoking fast robot in the israeli Regional!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Impressive. Interesting to note that its one of the teams thats been active in Israel since the Israeli Regional was started back in (correct me if I'm wrong) 2005. I wonder what caused it. Its not often you see 6+ year veteran teams making a mistake like that.

It happens to everyone from time to time. Insulation gets rubbed off and things short. I recall in 2006 a team had their PWM cables short to their frame and their nylon coverings went up in smoke. Plus, these sort of things aren't always really damaging to a robot, insulation burning can create a ton of smoke but only requires replacing the wire.

[Racer26]

Indeed it does. Things break, it happens to everyone. I was merely making the observation that its not often that you see long standing vets literally go up in smoke.

Everyone makes mistakes. I can remember in 2008, 1114's robot (which only lost 7 matches in its 3 regional + championship season) had one match at Waterloo where the main power cable became disconnected during autonomous.

[Nick Lawrence]

Every year we seem to melt 24"-36" of PWM cable on our practice robots.

-Nick

[pfreivald]

We have the dubious distinction of being the first robot to catch fire (ever) at FLR...

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

We have the dubious distinction of being the first robot to catch fire (ever) at FLR...

Wahoo!!


1126 in their rookie year started to smoke at their open house. We invited 191 over to share the spotlight and we showed them a little smoke. Later at our first regional it won us an award, "Grace Under Fire" Judges award. Always a good story.

[Hawiian Cadder]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

It happens to everyone from time to time. Insulation gets rubbed off and things short. I recall in 2006 a team had their PWM cables short to their frame and their nylon coverings went up in smoke. Plus, these sort of things aren't always really damaging to a robot, insulation burning can create a ton of smoke but only requires replacing the wire.

i believe that was my team, the robot almost got fire extinguished.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder

i believe that was my team, the robot almost got fire extinguished.

Nah, it was at the old Great Lakes Regional.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I recall in 2006 a team had their PWM cables short to their frame and their nylon coverings went up in smoke.

I remember it too. I was working in pit admin that year. The team gleefully showed off the melted and charred wire.