telescoping arm & ten second rule

[Ben Mitchell]

If my team had a telescoping arm (to score ten points by being a in a zone from across the field) and this arm was powered by a spring (meaning not powered by battery).

Say this arm took 5 seconds to extend, and we released it at 1:59, would the arm moving after the two minutes, and finally reaching into the home zone be legal, or must all parts of the robot stop immediatly after the 2 minutes are up.

I know FIRST gives 10 seconds to allow things to come to rest, but would intentionally moving (unpowerd by battery) after the two minutes be legal??

Thanks,

Ben Mitchell

[Ken Leung]

I am pretty sure that's ok, as long as your arm isn't dangerous to the judge or anything. I saw a message some where in the Yahoo Group just today about the exact same question.

[Joseph F]

It is acceptable... They do however have limits on what types of stored energy you can use, you must make sure it isn't concidered a projectile (including ground-effect projectiles), and it must not cause a risk of entanglement (time remaining is ignored).

[Anthony S.]

I think I read somewhere that is legal. Our team has a similar plan. But the way I see it is, you can't help what happens after the power is cut, you can't do anything they can't do anything. I think they'll still count it though. Guess we'll just have to see! Good Luck!!!!

[Curtis Williams]

I think everything is scored once everything on the feild comes to rest. Sounds legal to me.