Circuit breakers pointed towards the front or rear of the robot can be bad...if you hit something full speed, you could get them switched. I saw it happen to many teams. We mounted ours vertically so the switch went up or down...we never switched off accidently. If you do mount your breaker facing front, zip-ties work nicely for making sure you don't flip the breaker  (We made sure our allies did it...)
__________________
I'm a professional web developer. I'm good with PHP, Perl, Java/JSP, some RoR, XML, Javascript (AJAX as well), (x)HTML, CSS, etc.. Validated code is good; fully cross-browser code is better (you comply to your users and the software they use, not the other way around. Sorry!)
|
[E]specially when Murphy is around (or at a robotics competition), reality tends to win over physics. - EricH [more] 
13-01-2003, 22:03
Threaded Mode