Driver Station Dimension Limits?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by pmangels17

What driver station needs to be 16" deep?

One that includes a 15" deep laptop, perhaps?

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

It was impossible to hold teams to the 12" rule as new laptops exceed that dimension by quite a bit. (15" when open is not uncommon)

[cmrnpizzo14]

Ours this year was 12.5"-13" because of a nice briefcase that it was in. The inspector at the Boston regional was very nice and said that although we technically were over the limit by a small margin he did not see it as being a hazard or having the possibility to fall off the shelf.

Moral of the Story: We were ok with being slightly over-sized as I believe the vast majority of teams were. However, it is always better to know for sure that you are in accordance with the rules than to live on the edge and chance it.

[rwkling1]

Originally Posted by Cash4587

Ahh. Okay, Finally somebody could give me an answer, that is all I was looking for. So even though that rule states you can't be more than 12 deep, didn't some teams go over that depth rule? I could have swore some teams had deeper operator consoles than 12in deep.

Yeah, this year when we went to our regional, they told us we couldn't use our drivers station (just a laptop in a briefcase) because the briefcase was too long (more than 12 in) and it would hang over the edge. It kinda stinks because we totally made our drivers station look awesome with lights and stuff, but whateves.