As I mentioned in the previous thread. As long as its in the arena we do not see an issue as the environment is designed to take impacts and contain projectiles. If you feel that if your robot were to fail in an arena and its not safe then we should either look at the rules or the arenas.

The pits area is the concern. We appreciate bottles need to be filled up prior to the battle, all the bottles we have seen at our events are commercial bottle which will have been tested previously. As has happened in the past, as soon as a bottle receives an impact the robot no longer complies with the tech check and the bottle gets replaced. This has happened a few times at our events.

The issue I feel is when these bottles are attached to the robots as it is difficult to know if the pressure has been released into other components that may fail. There are 2 ways to stop this. 1 dont let people fit the bottles until the robot is in the arena (i feel is impractical), 2 have some form of indication when when the bottle valve is open so EO's can tell straight away when a robot in the pits has pressure in it. Maybe a pressure switch activating an LED? or a mechanical micro switch which switches an LED when the valve is screwed open?