Lots of Electrical Questions

[Allison K]

We are a future 2005 rookie team. We tried this year but couldn't get the registration fee, but we're building a robot anyway to practice. Electrical is one of our weakest points. Here are our questions, well a few of them.

1) We have an Edu RC, will have either a 2002 FIRST RD or a 2003 one, and are trying to find at least close to an official battery. What other electrical stuff do we need?

2) I am pretty sure we at least need a fuse box. Where does that go and how do we connect it to where it needs to go? And where can we find one and how much does it cost?

3) Where are we supposed to connect the motors to? And what about pnuematics. Where does the compressor hook up to (provided we can find one to use) and where do the solenoids (we have two of those) hook up to?

4) An engineer on my other team (226, I'm a mentor/alumni), one of the engineers someone said something about being able to connect the two RC's (The Edu and the FIRST one) so that our programmer can still use C (What he's been learning) but we can use the operator interface from the FIRST one. Can anybody explain this furthur?

Everything we have so far (6 motors, 2 pistons, 12 bearings, surge tank, 2 solenoids, 8 sprockets, chain, other cool stuff) was donated by 226. Thanks TEC CReW!

Allison