Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

umm... we've had weight problems in the past but this year we managed an epic in weighing. we were 40 LBS UNDERWEIGHT!!! that's right, we weighed 80 pounds at prototype. we considered what to do with the extra weight, some ideas that were thrown around:
- a toaster
- boombox for metallica
- a vice clamp (the idea was that we wouldn't have to carry it onto the field)
- full sets of plate armor or chain mail (too heavy)
- various limbs of team members.

yeah, fun day.

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

112.6 lbs

Anyone have 6 lbs of lightening hole chips we can use? :D

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

3 days ago, we were 30 pounds under weight, and projected ourselves at finishing up at around 110 lbs.

Yesterday at noon, we weighed our robot, and we came in at 120 lbs without everything on board.

This morning, at 12:15 AM, we weighed ourselves again and came in at 110.5 lbs without a couple components, meaning we think we can make weight.

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

Take a good look at your design and you will be surprised how easily you can get weight off, we got 10 pounds off in 5 hours yesterday.

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

If you're really desperate for big weight savings start looking at places that you doubled up motors. I know last year we weighed in a 120.1 - 120.0 all season and if worse came to worse we could've always pulled the extra CIM out of our drive.

And if you're really desperate, start trimming those bolts! I know on our 'bot we could lose a half pound easy if we cut the excess threads off of every bolt.

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

Overweight? Install some of these:

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

Well in our case since we were epicall underweight last year... we thought that we wouldn't be over this year which means that we got cocky and now we are barely making the weight limit after "swiss-cheesing" the robot a bit, let's hope that the robot doesn't eat anything while being shipped

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Our robot went on a low-density, swiss cheese diet last night, if you know what I mean ;>

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We lost 34 pounds in one day by switching from massive 1/4" aluminum plates to lexan for our shooter.

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

Last year we came in at about 5 pounds underweight after everything was built and put on, so we didn't think we'd have a problem this year.

Wrong! At the start of Thursday we were 20-30 lbs overweight. So we swiss-cheesed our conveyor mechanism and everything else that wasn't structurally important, swapped some of our aluminum speedrail for PVC, removed 2-3 lbs of excess wiring, took off some of the lexan armor for our control system, switched some steel components for aluminum, swapped the door on our hopper for something waaaay lighter, and removed 8lbs of unnecessary support for our control board. Now we're at weight! :D

Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?
 

Take out cRIO modules yo!

Straight from the GDC

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I'm epically overweight but it's so far so good on the robot.
More will be revealed on Monday, I suppose.

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Suprisingly our robot turned out to be 3 pounds under the max...and i don't know how many of you have seen our frame, but it is solid.

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We are 20 pounds under weight so we are going to add some propellers

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We are 20 pounds under weight so we added a big steel (at least 12") sprocket :cool: . and some lead ballast. In 04 our team was 40 pounds over weight a week before ship.