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Originally Posted by JosephM
Can you have extra speed controllers and spikes on your robot, not hooked up, so if a speed or spike fails, we can just re-wire it so that the back-up one can replace the broken one? Is this legal? I assume it is, but my team wants to know 100%.
Thanks ahead of time.
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Yes, you may. There is no rule that says you can't, anyways.
A few cavets-
1. They must be legal, as in the victors must be 884s (not '3s)
2. You may have to account for their cost. I am still not sure exactly how you account for IF equipment- it hasn't been made clear to me.
My question is, why? It seems to me that it would be easier to just unscrew a dead victor and drop a new one in its place. No fussing with wire lengths or anything. Completely plug and play. It should only take ~5 minutes to replace one. Plus, each victor is about 1/4 of a pound.
I guess I don't really understand why you want dead wieght on the 'bot. Sure, having spares is great (although, I've only seen one truley dead victor that needed to be replaced in 4 years), but why keep them on the 'bot? I'd be intrested in hearing your reasoning.
-Andy A.