Corvis (temp bot name) rough ideas.

[Bacon Wizard]

Max, DC boosting is well-known, normal, ordinary and old (WW2)

All you have to do is turn the supply on to charge caps, and turn it off again to discharge them. You don't even have to turn the DC off, just re-route it.

Intermittent or unregulated DC is way different than AC.

[Max]

All you have to do is turn the supply on to charge caps, and turn it off again to discharge them. You don't even have to turn the DC off, just re-route it if it were really necessary. If that were considered AC, then anything binary in nature will need to be banned.

Ok that's fine, I thought you were converting it to AC and didn't want you to be caught out by the rules. Although I imagine this concerns the "loopholes" part of the rules so you should ask if it is acceptable before building and I would also ask the event organisers if they are happy to have a 200kg robot in their arena- there aren't any superheavyweights for a reason.

[Bacon Wizard]

Ok that's fine, I thought you were converting it to AC and didn't want you to be caught out by the rules. Although I imagine this concerns the "loopholes" part of the rules so you should ask if it is acceptable before building and I would also ask the event organisers if they are happy to have a 200kg robot in their arena- there aren't any superheavyweights for a reason.

It's a walker. double weight allowance. I think it's pretty much established that a 200K walker is ok, if it's within the regs.

It's not the weight of the robot that's a problem per-se I don't think, it's the power of weaponry and mass of flying bits against the arena wall. But yeah, EO always get the final say of course.

I bet the whole voltages thing is about fire safety more than anything, but I'm in the habit of asking these things, yeah.