Final scoring time limit

[kirtar]

Originally Posted by gburlison

The problem is that the refs have to verify that you are above the plane. They will wait until time runs out and then come out onto the field to see how high your bot is. If it can not maintain the lift for the 10 seconds. It might not count. Its not that hard to make the act of disabling the controls, trigger the final action. In fact you want to make sure that the opposite does not happen. Disabling the controls might trigger something that undoes your final action. In particular hanging from the tower. If you need power to keep hanging, them when they disable your controls you will probably fall.

I was replying with respect to a pneumatic method as mentioned above. In this case, as long as you don't have some ridiculous leak in your air lines, (in which case you shouldn't have been allowed on the field?) you had the pressure to lift in the first place, and your solenoid has been triggered, it will remain in that position until given a different signal (it sends null IIRC).

Also, ignoring other objects, if you come to rest before the 10 seconds, they will check it before 10 seconds (rule says until things come to rest or 10 seconds after, whichever comes first). If you use a motor related method, it will stop driving the motor the moment the round ends.

Also the box is to count balls coming back in for the DOGMA stuff (in other words to make sure you are returning balls to the field).