A long essay
“Do not allow any cables on your robot to drag on the ground. Keep cable lengths as short as possible.”
I would also suggest trying to keep your V5 brain as far as possible from the ground, and to keep the metal screw holes on the back of the V5 brain away from metal. At the Google competition, all 50-or so teams shared only ONE practice field. This meant a lot of static buildup, and we did a lot of experimenting at the event and found another potential solution: Covering the motor ports with electric tape with a slit in the tape for the wire to go through. We didn’t have any motors breaking after we covered the motor ports with tape.
Summary:
- Talk to referees about checking if the fields are sprayed
- Keep your wires from dragging from the ground
- Keep your V5 Brain away from the ground and any metal on the V5 brain away from other metal.
- Cover the ports on your motors with electric tape. Recommended is just to cut a slit in the tape, push the wire through the slit, plug the wire in then cover the motor with the electric tape.
Hopefully this helps 