How Fast Can you Safely Climb?

[gegozi]

Originally Posted by Lireal

The issue would be if a team only had a motor keeping the robot up, it would crash to the ground immediately.

It doesn't matter if the robot falls after the timer stops.
The rules say that as long as the button is pressed through time 0 and it is pressed for over 1 second, it will count. I'd therefore recommend that you run your winch a little more than the minimum requirement to make sure that even if it does begin to slip or unravel, the button will still be pressed enough to credit the points.

If you're referring to the robot damage, that could be a serious issue.
I talked about this with my sister and she said to use an airbag-type system to prevent robot damage. I would LOVE to see someone build an airbag-type system that is FRC legal.

Either way, I hope this helps.