witricity legality?

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That violates <R53> as I read it. You might successfully argue that it's a non-functional decoration and thus not part of the "robot control system", but it looks to me like it's still covered by the "other sensors or circuits" phrase.

I would venture that "altering the power pathways" essentially means that nothing is supposed to go in between the breaker panels and the Victors/Spikes/RC, or between the Victors/Spikes and the motors. What Qbranch describes doesn't sound like it's altering the path to some circuit... the supply/display combo IS the circuit. I can't understand how <R53> could be read to outlaw this... there are plenty of custom circuits teams have used that derive power from the 12VDC system, but end up using something other than 12VDC at the end.