Request a Re-Write of the Wire Color Rule for 2013.

[tr6scott]

Originally Posted by Cal578

If you're seriously requesting a change to the rules, Chief Delphi isn't the proper channel. You'll need to contact the Game Design Committee.

I am seriously requesting discussion, Al will eventually see this, and see if it has any merit. I am only 2 years into FIRST, so asking for some understanding.

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

As you pointed out, industry applications have their standards and codes, why shouldn't FIRST have its standards as well?

I guess that is my point, if you want standardization, then pick A color and stick with it.

I don't understand the points about inspection, as if you really had a standard, all of the robots would follow the same color code. It would even be more understood.

I was not going for this strict standard in original post, but now as I look at the colors, and the comments, I really have an issue with white being used as a positive. In the US and most other nations, white is not used as a positive. We wired the bot with the white with blue tracer on the positive, and blue on the negative to meet the spec. The issue I have with that, and the reason for the post, was it is completely wrong, to what these kids will find in a couple of years after FIRST.

I am glad that Andrew posted, but as a student that came up through the FIRST program, now goes to Kettering, and works at Chrysler. There is not a single application he will come across, where white will be a positive.

NEC says so. (66.9 robot control falls under this spec, but obviously, I wouldn't make the case that an FRC robot is a control panel, and Andrew might, as it appears that anything mobile doesn't fall under any standards.)

That just seems wrong, to me.
I think it is a disservice.

For the humor...
For the record the kids didn't mind, and the electrons still flowed unknowingly.
http://xkcd.com/927/