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Re: pic: 1503's Off-Season Project

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I personally would want protection of some from of the analog and solenoid breakouts, wether it be the cRIO mounted sideways in the bot and covered with lexan or put in a lexan box... either way, those guys are a great target for another 'bot to come along and slice it in two. Every year our robot's electronics have been completely covered in lexan/polycarbonate with no overheating issues of any kind. I really reccomend that many teams do this, as I saw countless robots being disabled for a match after having their electronics penetrated by another robot, usually with fatal results.

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Lexan armor is great if you can afford the weight. Historically 1075 hasn't built a bot that had room in the weight budget for it... we've only had 1 major mishap where a radio connector got ripped off the RC in 2007, and a couple minor ones where a pwm got pulled in 5 seasons of on-and-off season events.
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Re: pic: 1503's Off-Season Project

Lexan armour is fantastic, and I can attest to that.

During Ra Cha Ruckus on '07, I operated the arm on our robot, for anyone who is familiar with our Rack n Roll robot. Anyways, we forgot to put one of the lexan shields on that covers our main power breaker.... and I managed to drive the claw straight into it, shutting our robot off for the match... but our PDB was dead at the start, so we had virtually no base control during the match, so I guess there was not much of a change in results.
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