19-01-2012, 08:43
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 868
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Re: how much current does jag use
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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
As a second hint, when crimping terminals, always perform a 'tug test'. That is to say after you crimp a terminal to the wire, pull on the terminal as hard as you can. If you can't pull it off, it should be good. If you do throw it away and try again.
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When I teach the tug test to students: "Well if it comes off, you have to redo it anyway"
Also make sure you are tugging hard enough. If you can get to arm shaking level while tugging, then it is ready for competition.
My last crimping hint is to buy a good crimper. The one that comes in the kit is functional, but it's harder to make a crimp that passes the tug test. something like Mcmaster #69555K62 is 10 times better than something like #7007K92.
@Al, Are wire ferrules (7950K28) in the terminal blocks allowed? I don't see anything in the rules one way or the other.
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Student FRC23 (1996-1999), Mentor FRC246 (2000), Mentor FRC1318 (2007-2009), Mentor FRC93 (2011), Mentor FRC2151 (2012), Mentor FRC23 (2013), Mentor FRC4761 (2014-2017)
1998 - National Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers Award (FRC23, Mike Bastoni  ) | 2007 - PNW SF (488, 1595) | 2008 - Oregon RCA - Seattle #2 Seed, SF (488, 1696) | 2009 - Oregon #1 Seed, Winners (1983, 2635) - Seattle SF (945, 2865) - Galileo #2 Seed, SF (973, 25) | 2012 Midwest F (111, 71) | 2014 RIDE Winners (78, 125), Inspector - NEU #24, QF (3479, 3958) - NECMP #35 | 2015 Reading #11, SF (1058, 190), Inspector - RIDE #17, QF(4055, 5494), Inspector - NECMP #57 | 2016 Reading #4, SF (133, 4474), DCA, Inspector - Ride #22, SF (1735, 2067), Creativity, Inspector - NECMP #48, RCA - Archimedes
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And then I learned how to use the lathe...long story short, I ditched my plans to become a music major and became an engineering student. - Karibou [more] 
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