Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

Did you guys ever have problems with the hopper having a flat bottom, instead of having a sloped bottom to the front where the roller is?

Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

well the base of the hopper comes up to a slant with the use of what i believe is a window motor. you may have seen this on 103's modification to a power dumper which was a concept they took from 2753.

Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

Team 11 was one teams to lift their hopper up and dump (using a pneumatic piston). 2753 does the same thing but has rollers in the front aka making it a power dumper. But as pointed out earlier, overdrive uses a window motor.

Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

I was the field supervisor for the Archimedes Division. The only problem I had with your robot is that every time that you competed I had to have two field reset people swifter the playing field to remove the worn conveyor belt material. Congratulations to your team on a wonderful championship. I expect to see great things from your team in the coming years. See you next year at the championship.

Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

Haha, yes we did notice that.

We replaced the belt on Thursday with a new one and for some reason the new one shredder like paper. The older ones held up much better, so I am not sure what happened.

Anyway, sorry about that!

Re: pic: FRC 2753, Team Overdrive 2009 Robot
 

If I remember correctly - Tyler - we changed suppliers of the "shelf-liner" material: Contact versus Kittrich. Also, we used Gel Contact Cement originally -- made by DAP. Our new belt used 4 minute spray contact cement from 3M. The sheddling of the belt did not happen in either NJ or NYC.

Lesson learned: do not change suppliers without adequate testing.:rolleyes: