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Re: witricity legality?
That violates <R53> as I read it. You might successfully argue that it's a non-functional decoration and thus not part of the "robot control system", but it looks to me like it's still covered by the "other sensors or circuits" phrase.
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Re: witricity legality?
I would venture that "altering the power pathways" essentially means that nothing is supposed to go in between the breaker panels and the Victors/Spikes/RC, or between the Victors/Spikes and the motors. What Qbranch describes doesn't sound like it's altering the path to some circuit... the supply/display combo IS the circuit. I can't understand how <R53> could be read to outlaw this... there are plenty of custom circuits teams have used that derive power from the 12VDC system, but end up using something other than 12VDC at the end.
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Everything I know about electromagnetic induction indicates that using two inducting coils would both interfere with and heat the body of the frame. Take any high school physics book and look up eddy currents. The principle is essentially that any piece of metal contains hundreds of conducting loops which will all form currents when in the presence of a changing magnetic field. Such loops will generate heat and suck power from the desired application. You will notice that there was no nearby metal in the M.I.T. test and that the only barrier used was a WOODEN BOARD. |
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ok ok we won't use it.
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There are various rules that may come into play on this one. Solenoid actuators and transmitting devices other than the radio modems and a specific signaling device for the hybrid mode are specifically prohibited under current rules. And as Alan has pointed out, R53 most certainly applies. As to some of the previous posts, Tesla coils included, all are fairly lossy devices and/or require rather large electromagnetic fields to operate. Although cool and an interesting way of supplying power to rotating mechanisms, they are likely just too inefficient for use on a robot. Please check into the 60 watt light bulb and look closely at the power input required to light the bulb.
BTW, the circuit used to keep the display from blanking for the Kilobytes is considered a custom circuit and does follow the robot rules in that is specifically does not control any motors or actuators on the robot and thus follows R53. In a similar fashion, the power supply that some teams use to power decorations like the CCFL tubes also modifies the power supply but does not connect to any control on the robot. Last edited by Al Skierkiewicz : 29-03-2008 at 23:52. |
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Ok, I have had a chance to do a little research on the experiment and this is what I found. The stated efficiency is about 40% and the team claims that they will be able to develop a commercial system that will meet FCC safety standards. The demonstrated system ran at 10 MHz.
A few things came to mind while I was reading some of the articles. 10 Mhz is already used for a variety of very important wireless governmental services such as WWV time standards and GPS synchronization signals. Just above this frequency is an amateur radio band that shares the spectrum with other services. So there is more to consider than just safety issues. As far as use on a robot, this system is being developed for delivery of power and has no provision for tranmsission of control signals, although there are other devices that do that very well. In the future this might be a pretty cool thing to have on the robot if certain other problems are addressed. Keep thinking, we might see this someday. |
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Sounds like you got the message...but that won't stop everyone else from discussing it to death!
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all i need alot of eletrical stuff... |
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Don't forget that RF heating of body parts is a well established fact. Start reading about RF and coupled circuits before you jump in. If the numbers can be believed, to deliver 60 watts at the light bulb at 40% efficiency, then the transmitter had to be able to deliver at least 150 watts to begin with. That is 50% higher power than the transmitters many ham operators use to communicate around the world. Interference is something that you will find brings the FCC knocking on your door.
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"I was trying to apply pioneering technology to a robot to give us a competive edge in FIRST, with a new type of wireless crab drive." "Well your disrupting ICBM guidance." "Sorry." it wouldn't work like that. Anyways i think the current is magentic not radio, so i don't think that it will interfere. Also when Popsci (Popular Science) ran an article on Witricity they said that it does not interfere with the human body. But i will have safety glasses on anyways. Last edited by XXShadowXX : 31-03-2008 at 12:45. |
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i believe this article should clear up any confusion about witricity.
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now can we have a more informed talk about this crap.... (not crab). |
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Do you know what issue of PopSci the article was in, I don't remember reading it but I would like to. Also PopSci is not always the best resource. Last edited by JamesBrown : 31-03-2008 at 12:48. |
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