led strips

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Nebster

I know this is technically not following the rules exactly, but I would feel free to use them. Inspectors aren't going to care whether or not the LED strips got cut down last season or not, they're just light and serve no purpose other than that. If FIRST actually does enforce this rule down to the single little LED strips, then that would just be costing teams a lot of money that doesn't need to be spent.

To expand on that: we're an old team and subsequently have a lot of old parts. If I take a piece of 80/20 that has a couple holes in it and has been cut to some length (no longer COTS), but then make another cut and drill some more holes, is it okay or not? Our team has taken the position that this is okay, because it is material that was COTS at one point, but none of the previous fabrication was beneficial to this year. And if FIRST wants to promote recycling, this kind of reuse feels in the spirit of the rules.