Strategies to prevent overcurrent/breaker trip

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Strategies to prevent overcurrent/breaker trip

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24-12-2002, 21:03

kmcclary

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Re: The old fashioned way...

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Originally posted by Patrick Wang
Not being able to regulate the safety factor on the compressed air tanks for FIRST robots would be quite scary to FIRST.

The compressor has a safety valve attached, that pops at 120 PSI. Not a problem.

BTW... As a reminder before we get any further into pressures and cooling, this thread is for people to list their general robot design methods to create machines that INHERENTLY prevent breakers trips.

Please list how you design your robots to normally prevent breaker trips, yet still allow you to push the power demand situation whenever needed.

Thanks!
- Keith

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