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Our robot weighed 30 pounds underweight when we last weighed it. So we will definitely put counterweight on our arm.

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we are 10 pounds under....for now.... lol

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Originally Posted by dlavery

We weighed in tonight at 113.2 pounds - with the compressor, all the pneumatics stuff that we originally weren't going to include, the new mobility system - and the battery. 100 pounds even without the battery.

And people thought we were kidding when we made this post!

Time to put the lounge seat back on so the freshmen can ride around on the robot... :)

-dave

We are in the same boat if the scale is right. The scale looked like a larger/older version of a triple beam balance. We weight 107 and that is also with the compressor which we thought we weren't going to add.

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We are under, but because we removed the second set of chips from the drive, I'm drilling holes in hope of getting thoes back on (6 pounds... ulgh)

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Originally Posted by dlavery

<humor=on>

I hope you aren't having the freshmen on the robot during the matches, since they really don't meet the flowchart at all. Freshmen are great energy sources for cleaning the back room or sorting things out, but not so much for stuff on the field. :D

<humor=off>

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I think we are fractionally over currently.

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sadley i have to say our robot was just weighted at GE and we found out that we are 2 lbs over. so now we are scrambling trying to figure out how we are going to get rid of those 2 lbs. RIP THE PEICES OUT AND START MILLING!!!

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So far a majority of the replays here have been underweight or just over.
I am now asking another question, Do you think that this years game has made it so robots are less complex,compared to other years games, so teams can make the weight limits?

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We weighed MILDREAD last nigh, and she is 3 llbs underweight, and all we have left is some lexan to cover our curcuit breaker, just in case somone accidentally hits it during a match. We were convinced that she was over, so it was a great relief to finally weigh her and find out that she's under.

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Well that really depends upon which page of the documentation one reads. I no longer trust my 50+ yr old memory (which had remembered a 120# limit), so I had the kids look up the max weight to remind us of our goal. They brought me our notebook open to what I now realize was "FIRST Guidelines, Tips and Good Practices", page 5 of 38, wherein under 1.2 ROBOT Mechanincal 1.2.1 sub 1 it says "The robot weith limit is 130 pounds..."

We weighed our machine the other day, and were at 120, so we went on our merry way adding a hood, fan, etc. This AM I was tripping through the rules :confused: and see that under ROBOT, 5.3.2.1 <R08> says "...max allowed weight ...is 120 pounds". Page 8 of 29.

I guess the good part of this is that my memory isn't totally gone, but we put this thing in a crate yesteday, instead of drilling holes in frames etc. Needless to say, this is a bit frustrating - we coulda been drillin' holes instead of makin' extra parts.

Will probably uncrate and drill drill drill, but may ask for a waiver since were given conflicting info.

While I am at it, the timeline graphic on p 8 of 29 hopefully has some incorrect dates - since Feb 21 is not be a Thurs this year. What are the correct dates???