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Who else is sweating the grams? :rolleyes:

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11 years of doing this and we shipped an underweight robot once but it was up to 119.9 by the end of championship.

Twice we were under significantly only because we removed major items at our first regional when we gave up on them.

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I would worry more about the tanks falling out when you climb!

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Last time I checked we were in the 140 pound club...
And running out of places to drill lightening holes!
Who knew tiny robots could be so heavy?

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We're going to have our first weighing tomorrow. I'm guessing we might even be below 100!

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We weighed in at 81lbs last night. There were a few small things missing, so we'll likely be up to 90lbs by the end. The c.g. is imbalanced, so we'll probably add another 10 for that. Hanging for 10 rather than climbing for 30, at least at the moment; opportunity may present itself later if the team can pull everything together with vision first.

(Funny thing about being the only CAD guy this year since the 2 students fell off... I know how we *can* climb for 30 and it's outright elegant; yet putting the team to the task would distract them from perfecting what we have so far which is far from championship-grade ... heavy sigh ... I'll present it as an afterthought I suppose)

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Our team right now does not have enough to even worry about weighing. For us it is going to be balancing out our robot.

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You guys are lucky. We are 5 lbs over on the prototype atm. Should be down to 117ish by tonight on the final robot

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We were at 106 before wires. I don't see us breaking 120 any time soon.

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We were at 119.6 last night with still some wiring to run. Ugh!

I think we can squeeze out 2 or 3 pounds here and there.

One year we actually did weight in at 119.9. No kidding.

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92 lbs, but that number keeps climbing. :cool:

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77.6lbs before electronics and one mechanism.

We've been 5-10+lbs under weight 3 years running. I hope to continue the trend, saves on hole-saw costs.

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We might actually need the 40 lb lead bar we've got sitting in the back of the shop.

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We're trying to build the smallest and lightest FRC robot ever. If you want to only climb light and small make a big difference. As it stands right now the robot is 15 x 24 inches and weighs a little over 40 lbs. It has only two motors and gearboxes. One to run the lead screw and one to tilt the arm relative to the base. Two Talons are all that are needed. If you attend the Denver regional and are over weight we could probably convince the inspectors to give you some of our spare pounds:)

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We are going to weigh ours again tonight, but last week it was esentually 100 lbs. This is the first time our robot did not need to go on a "Diet"

We are right at 120 ..... When we add the batteries and bumpers! We should be at around 95 - 100. Last year, we were at 119.9, and had to take a strip of velcro off during one weigh in! I'm happy we don't have to worry about going overweight this year!