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Re: Minibot switches...

I was asked to be LRI for Peachtree this year since Ed Sparks couldn't take time off from his new employment. I instructed our minibot inspectors to allow all microswitches since the KOP microswitches were listed on the bag label as "limit switches."

Any switch that you would find behind the plastic plate on the wall of your house (the ones that turn your overhead lights on) is what I consider a common household light switch. Those were approved, and I feel, what the GDC had in mind for use on the robots.

For any other switch (all of which COULD turn some sort of light on), we asked for documentation stating that a function of this switch was to turn on lights, the idea being that such a general specification might suggest control of a light which might be found in, say, the range exhaust hood light in the home. While it didn't come up, I would have rejected a rocker switch specifically sold as an automotive switch because that's not a household application. I did reject a number of dubious switches, some of which had been severely modified, some of very questionable and foreign design.

I believe the GDC's intent was for teams to use the wall switch as described above. If teams want to play with me to see just how far they can push the envelope, then I will play with them, requiring the documentation for their specific switch, as asked for above.

It sometimes amazes me just how much work and grief people are willing tolerate just to do it some more difficult, less efficient way. It's so easy when you do it right!
 


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