02-13-2009 11:29 AM

Phil Ross

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness loading photo ...

02-13-2009 01:47 PM

zachjo

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by Phil Ross have you guys had trouble indexing the orbit balls?

02-13-2009 02:16 PM

armyOFdarkness

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

02-13-2009 03:10 PM

RoboGeek99

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

02-13-2009 03:15 PM

armyOFdarkness

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

The front conveyor is 25:1 w/ RS545 motor, the rear is 20:1 w/ fischer price motor.

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Originally Posted by RoboGeek99 The bane bot gearboxes look like 4:1 ...or am i just hallucinating...we are using a 64:1 for our belt

02-14-2009 03:19 AM

Vikesrock

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

Nice looking robot!

How do the balls funnel down from a 2 ball wide conveyor to a single shooter without jamming?

02-22-2009 06:00 PM

VincentCS34F

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

its a secret

02-22-2009 06:08 PM

EricLeifermann

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

02-22-2009 06:51 PM

Raptor2

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

We're still kind of working on that.

02-22-2009 06:53 PM

Raptor2

Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by Vikesrock Nice looking robot! How do the balls funnel down from a 2 ball wide conveyor to a single shooter without jamming?