pic: 1538's Practice Electronics Board

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That's an amazingly clean layout. It's almost ridiculously clean. I'd be concerned that any wiring issues would be hard to fix without ruining it.

Forgive the nitpicks, but is the cRIO insulated from the frame? And you do know that it's never been legal to replace the Spike fuses with breakers except on the one controlling the compressor, right? I'm also curious why the PDB isn't rotated 180 degrees so the power wires to the Victors and the Spikes don't cross each other, and the cRIO power can run a shorter distance, though I can see it would be a tradeoff against the battery position.

We have some adhesive rubber between the cRIO and the frame. As for the breakers, we only used the for testing on the practice bot. The battery was our biggest concern with the PDB, and finding room for 4 gauge wire was difficult even with the short run. I will post more photos when we take apart the practice bot.

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Conner, do you think you could get together with Kiet to put together a simple white paper about the methods/part numbers/wire choice (brand, source)/terminals/tips that he taught you this year? Do you use nylon/other plastic hardware to mount electronics? What is the best generic layout? Does having a waterjet hole pattern for electronics really force you to keep a clean layout?

Would be great to have these down on paper if you folks get the time. Thanks!

This sounds like a great idea. I will talk to Kiet about it.