Quote Originally Posted by Pugster2002
I don't no if this sounds stupid but if your robot doesn't have a link can't you just turn of the controller and it will stop :shock:
Not a silly question but it's about safety. Robots have a lot of dangerous stuff in them and we want them to be safe. We want all the batteries, spinny things and flippy things to be dead whenever we're messing with them so we don't hurt ourselves. Switches can fail, so can failsafes on the receiver, speed controllers can blow and go into full power and batteries can catch fire spontaneously. If we have a removable link we take out a bit of cable which means that unless we have the most unlucky failure will mean that we can guarentee the robot is dead.

Andy