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Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE!!!!!

almost everytime I picked up the bot off of the HDPE at SLR, I got a nice discharge into my body. Several times over the weekend, we believe we were zapped and killed because of static.
We were actually talking about your team's design today. We figured that a tread system made of Linotex (or some other bright red non-slip material) pretty much is a Vandergraf generator - as the tread moves along the surface, it picks up electrons that are dropped off into the frame as the tread moves back across the top.

Anyways, it sounds like some teams have more problems with this than others, so my advice to everyone is to put your freshmen in charge of collecting the bot after a match ;-)
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