Thread: 1540 WCD
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Unread 23-12-2011, 04:50
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Re: 1540 WCD

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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
That looks like a good start, but you'll probably want to rethink your electronics layout. I don't think you'll be able to mount your digital sidecar like that because you'll be blocking your cables coming out of the digital module (unless FIRST changes the ordering to fill the first 3 slots), and you clearly can't bolt it down. It looks like you'll have space in front of your PD board for the sidecar.

I can't see everything, but will you have enough space to wire up your victors? Forgetting about wiring is so easy to do when you're trying to make things fit.
Instead of bolting down our electronic board, we used velcro on most of the parts to hold it in place, and it worked out perfectly fine. The CAD I showed was not completed so a lot of stuff are still missing.

For wiring the Victors, our control systems person was able to make a "Wire Spine" from all the victors going to our different electrical components. Again, we did make slight modifications before we made the robot. Sadly, my windows partition is dead so I couldn't upload the latest CAD