Victor Brakes

[EricS-Team180]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

IFI actually approves of the direct method.. See here for some more information...As far as I know, this rule was uniformly interpreted as written during 2006 inspections, meaning that the use of a Spike or other relay to trigger the brake/coast settings would not have been permitted.

I agree with Tristan. We researched this last year, and found the same postings he notes. We were surprised that IFI did not recommend a method similar to what Sciguy and EugeneBrooks suggested. At the Palmetto Regional, we built and successfully tested a wiring harness to switch our drive train Vics between Brake/Coast modes, from the Digital I/O pins of the FRC. Afterwards we decided not to use it in the competition, since it did not provide the type of braking effect we were looking for.

Eric