2009 Long Island Regional

[JamJam263]

They are worried about our robot being a fire hazard. After completely rewiring the robot and having many, many people check all connections, we collaborated with the mentors of 358(thank you so much guys) and started ruling everything out.

However it wasn't good enough because there wasn't a definite answer to what it was. So they made us run the bot for around 8 minutes(maybe a little more) and told us that it wasn't safe because our CIM which was running the entire time, and was the one hooked up to the victor that caught on fire, got extremely hot and started to heat the wired close to it and smell. So the victor blew up on the input side, and their blaming the output connections. While i completely agree with making us test and prove the safety of the bot outside, an 8 minute stress test is a little excessive. I've never seen a team have to go through 4 back to back matches without any break. But they do know best, and I would never want to put the safety of anyone at the competition at risk. So its still up in the air on what we're going to do. Tomorrow morning we have to submit a plan to them, change it, test again, if we pass we get back in, if not, good luck at the rest of the competition and Nationals.

Also thank you so much to all the teams who came to our aid, the line of teams walking up to us with victors, wire and tools in their hands was defiantly a testimony to gracious professionalism.