Why Did We Change To Flags???

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Also, the rotating lights were extremely heavy and counted towards your weight limit.

They could make it not count toward your weight, like your battery currently is (remember, they used to up your allowed weight and make you weigh your battery with your bot?) They could do the same thing with the dome light.

These looked cooler and made it very easy to tell which alliance a robot was on. They also didn't risk falling out, breaking, and don't cause the team the trouble of having a 4 ft. long piece of pipe coming out of the base of their bot because if the flag is attached to the ramp which folds down, then the flag falls out (ok maybe that was too specific)...

We should start a poll. I say yay to changing back to the dome lights.

Jacob

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

They also didn't risk falling out, breaking, and don't cause the team the trouble of having a 4 ft. long piece of pipe coming out of the base of their bot because if the flag is attached to the ramp which folds down, then the flag falls out (ok maybe that was too specific)...Jacob

They broke, if there was an intrusion into a robot there is the possibility of the colored light color breaking.

How about instead of using the flag we just all wrap out robots in color saran wrap. there! problem sovled!

If you really don't like the thread this much and with all the threads on here, why don't you all start emailing FIRST and tell them to change it. I mean after all you are the ones that play the game, not FIRST.

-John

[David]

Our robot still has one of those lights we had around the shop. Old habits die hard

[Ryan Albright]

I vote to go back to the LED's. I think in the past we just had the wrong LED's

These are the ones to go with

http://www.swps.com/led-x-exterior-lights.html

These are the new LED's Police agency's are starting to use.

SUPER BRIGHT, Alot of agencies around me use them and brag you can see them a mile away.

Kinda of expensive, but have dropped alot since they were mass produced about 3 years ago.

Here is a video to show you how bright they are

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z3FcTKlcf...elated&search=

[edit] just noticed these are the self contained ones, they also have wired ones[/edit]