1.2.2 power switch:
- It is recommended to use non-corrosive nuts on the power switch
In my almost 40 years working designing and developing electronic/electrical equipment, I have never heard of using thread locking compound on electrical connections. On some high-power equipment (in the 100’s of KW and above), they used cadmium plated nuts. The service life of a typical FRC robot is too short to worry about corrosion unless you are playing in some water game.
For the CAN wiring, we used connectors like the ones @cbale2000 linked but the crimps did require a ligh level of workmanship and QC afterwards. I do not favour soldering because a lot of people have trouble learning to do it well enough not to melt the wire insulation and make a mess. Yes, some people can learn/teach it but some years, there will be few who can do it well. Making/repairing a solder joint that is deep in the bowels of the robot will be difficult. The Wago lever nuts are probably the best solution since it would be the hardest for most people to get wrong.
Some thing to add to your list.
- Do a pull test on every electrical connection immediately after making the connection. Then have someone who is meticulous do a QC check on the wring, one wire at a time.
- Beat up your robot a lot at home. Drive it into an immovable object like a concrete wall. You want to discover the weaknesses at home, not at your competitions.
- Be honest about your team’s true capabilities and build within those capabilities.
- The port savers you have on your list should be attached well to the frame of the robot so when the tether gets ripped out of them, all the force is transferred from the port saver cable into the frame of your robot. Of course, one would buy several sets of the port saver cables. If you have a driver station panel with the laptop mounted on it, add a port saver cable to the ethernet port of the laptop.