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Power the camera lights

I saw a number of teams at nationals running their camera lights and underglow directly from the power distribution board: at least I assumed they were because the lights were lit while the robots were disabled.

Even if these were being powered from a custom circuit, in the game manual, in the robot section, it states that all electrical loads should be run through an approved power-regulating device.

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All electrical loads (motors, actuators, compressors, electric solenoids) must be supplied by an approved power regulating device (speed controller, relay module, or Digital Sidecar PWM port) that is controlled by the cRIO on the Robot.


I thought I remembered from years past (did a search for decoration in the manual) that non-functional decorations didn't have to go through power regulating devices.

So my question is this:
Is it legal to directly wire lighting like the camera light and the underglow directly to the PD board?

Having the camera light on so that you could use your targetting system for lining up your robot (via the driverstation feedback) would have been a nifty trick this year.

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