pic: removable electronics

[JBotAlan]

Strangely enough, we just had a huge debate tonight on this very subject. We decided that there would be too many points of failure electrically; the more intermediate connections you have, the more points it can fail, and the more points it has higher resistance at it. Anyone found that Anderson pairs get warm after a particularly hard match? There's your proof that they raise resistance. Another issue we had was we do not have a purpose besides it being "cool" to have this type of board. No matter how we do it, making a removable board would not save time replacing a failed Victor/Spike. We decided it didn't fit our needs, and that we would have a traditional, fixed board. Since every team has a different set of requirements, this may be appropriate for other teams, and that's for them to decide.

What were your criteria with this design? What were you hoping to accomplish? Is it very easy to remove from the robot (not sure if you have a robot built to play with...we don't really...)? Just curious, because I would like to see one of these built, but need to come up with more reasons why.

JBot