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Well, with less than a week to go, and your robots almost done (hopefully), how heavy are your bots?

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Er, I supposed you meant GREATER than 130lbs as the last choice.

We're 128.5lbs ... without the lexan which is being ordered. Should be 130.0 like the last 2 years :)

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More than 1 lb and less than 1000. Approximately. + or - 870lbs.

edit: Greater than 74 and less than 130. We are still finishing some work so it should be in the range of 129.99. We had better make sure to blow the dust off before we go to weigh. We were 129.8 last year.

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a number greater than what we'd like it to be.

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128.5 as of the other day before all our new spiffy speed holes we are having put in!!

Welcome to the big time!!

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124 last I'd heard. We still have some lexan and a few other tiny bits to put on, but I think we'll be underweight this year without a furious round of speed holing. *runs about knocking on every piece of wood he can find*

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Speed holes A.K.A. "Access Holes" lightened a pound for us, but trimming some of the bosch tubes (that does no have a lot of pressure load) dropped us down a few pounds... :D

We're about 135 (?) right now with everything on...

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Last time I was there, we were at 109lbs and everything was assembled and on the robot. I think the team is gonna try to beaf it up so it is not too light, to around 125-128lbs.

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Uh, I think we'll finish our bot first before we weigh it... All i know is my part is 4.7 pounds, w00t

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We were at 129.6 without leds, bumpers, a shield, sensors, backup battery, and team numbers. All of that we figure weighs about 3.5 lbs so you can say we'll be doing a bit of lightnening.

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Beat this ladies and Gentlmen .. As of last night .. Kilabyte weighs in at 145lbs :ahh: .. I dont even think Dr. Atkins can help.. It is time for some serious plastic surgury....

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Sounds like you all should have been using the Cyber Blue Weight Database!

Just joking. Good luck with the weight reduction activities.

I think we are looking for about 2 pounds.

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132.4 lbs. minus whatever metal filings were left after we cut and drilled for an hour. Several more hours to go.

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Wow! I wonder how many other teams can say, :yikes:

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Sounds like you need to scrap a mechanism. Either that or do a serious remanufacturing of all the parts out of a thiner material. We are only 3.5 pounds over and we are still remanufacturing a major part.

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about a week ago our robot (1023) weighted in at about 160. As of tonight we are at 128.4 with just hooks for the moblie goal and sensors to put on.

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Care to explain how you reduced it so much? I'm sure we all would love to hear.

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never say never - in 2002 we were able to successfully bring our robot down from 160 something pounds to within weight without sacrificing functionality.

this year we're better off, we weigh in at only 147 pounds.

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today we finally check we all thought it was going to be heavy cuz of the looks but it came in at 97 lbs and it its no small robot

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With the robot fully assembled she weighed about 125...Probably a little more, but she'll make the weight limit for sure.

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Ok, I will. As of first weigh in 2 nights ago we were at 149.9lbs......needless to say our robot was put on a serious crash diet.
As of last night we were down to 131, looking foward to tommorows weigh in to see were we are at.
:cool:

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our last years robot was 179 lbs. we got it down to 130.0lbs about 5 minutes before qualifications ended. This year's is 105lbs with a couple things not mounted

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we're real fast with lots of bells & whistles all under 130lbs with weight to spare.

We can hardly believe it ourselves.

For those of you >130 - keep drill'n
Good Luck to all! :)

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Rob could we lend you some of our weight?

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127lbs as of last night (2/20/04) after putting some more "stuff" on it, and making more spiffy patterns in the robot like this one!

Still going to make the weight limit... SWEET!!!

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We our overweight 131.1 and thats without any skins that are gonna weigh about 5 pounds so we are working on taking out weight right now the answer looks like we are taken off one of the motors

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We were at 123 last time we weighed it.

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Not to brag or anything....

We weigh 63 lbs with out the battery and the 18 pound arm. So a grand total of about 80 lbs right now.

Also we have a goal gripper, and side "wings" to push balls.

Hopefully we didn't build it TOO light... (hope duribility isn't a problem)

Good luck yall!

-Andy

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The way we lost most of our weight was reducing our robot's two motor drivetrain to single motor drivetrain. This allowed us to take a lot of weight out of our gearboxes. We didn't need the extra motor but it would have been nice.

Another way we took out all that weight was by trying to remove as much steel as possable. For starters we milled down all of out sprockets.

the rest of the weight was lost in drilling holes.

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Wow.. what are those skins made out of??? May I suggest just making them out of tin sheet metal?? Those are real light, actually they are so light, that I hung our previous year's skins from that track system in the ceiling (from the tiles) at the HS last weekend to display them and get them off the floor!!

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We are currently a bit overweight, but not alarmingly so. Our problems are primarily with where our weight is rather than how much of it there is.

Our center of gravity is much further toward one end of the robot than we anticipated and that's created some problems regarding the operation of our systems.

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10 lbs over = go on diet. We shead all those lbs then we must have had some Krispy Kreames cause now we are 6 lbs over. Why do these stupid diets work for such a short time. Maybe after running Blizzard 5 around it may shed those lbs. This I doubt so its back on diet.

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When I left BMS yesterday, we were 1.5 lbs over. We'll get it down to something frighteningly close to 130 lbs, soon, though.

We started shaving off half of the heads on all the bolts on the robot to save weight. ::sigh:: God I love build season.

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We weighed at each step, but somehow we gained a ton of weight... 165-170lbs last weighing, yikes! We probably have to amputate some features :(. Anyone know the difference between 16 gauge wire and 10 gauge wire weights? ;)

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it was 145 but after a day of weight reduction its down to approximatley 130 but it looks like a school bus the way we cut the side panels

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:D :D :D :D

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Today's weight counts:

START: 132.4 lb.

-0.4 lb. drilling holes
+0.3 lb. lights
-0.4 lb. old pushing beam
+0.5 lb. new pushing beam
-0.5 lb. old side braces
+0.3 lb. new side braces
+0.1 lb. of who know's what

END: 132.3 lb.

NEW IDEAS FOR SAVING WEIGHT:
-rewire
-more holes
-take off washers and any unneccesary bolts
-shorten steel axles by 1/2" on each side
-fill tires and pneumatics with helium

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We did our first accurate weighing today with a complete (or nearly complete) robot. We weighed in at 129.9, SWEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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we are 110 with only half the bot. lol

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Ouch...

Now THAT is pretty awesome. ::sigh:: Some kids have all the luck..;)

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Remember three things:

1) The scales used in the past were only accurate to the nearest pound.

2) The scales vary by at least 0.5. At Nationals last year there were 4 scales. One was significantly heavier than the rest, two were close and one showed a half pound less than the others. This was when the inspectors put the same robot on all the scales to get a feel for the differences. Robots close to 130 were weighed on the "light" scale.

3) The weight shown on the scale at the competition is the only one that counts.

You're not out of the woods yet! If I were you I'd try and find at least another half pound. Easier now than at a competition.

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Must be that we are rookies or something...but comparing to my 7 year old sister (50ish pounds)...I say our bot is about 70 pounds (with bat) with only one minor component to go....