08-01-2009, 22:56
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Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Herndon, VA
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Re: Cover on the airlock area?
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Originally Posted by pfreivald
That's tremendously strange. I was pouring over both pictures and CAD drawings trying to find out the answer to this very question. With no top to the airlock, what is the point of the lower, harder-to-use little windows?
I don't really get it, and that has made me worried that I'm missing something. I plan to ask on the Q&A, just to double-triple check this.
Patrick
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The airlock structure is there to keep robots from sliding into the corner and getting stuck in an acute corner, as mentioned in Chapter 6 of the Manual. It is that simple.
-dave
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