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Re: How much does your robot weigh?
We are well under 100 lbs, but we need to bulk all the way up to 120 lbs.
We are adding about 25 lbs of ballast weight to out far right side toward front.
Why? We drive up the bridge with most of our width hanging off the left side of the bridge and leaving room for normal bots to still pass by us on the bridge. Hopefully this makes the 3-bot balance easier with none of us protruding near the ends. With most of the robot overhanging the side rail, we really need a lot of weight on the far right just to have enough traction on the 2 wheels (of 6-wheel tank drive) that remain in good contact with bridge to get us up the slope. Lots of slipping and spinning wheels right now, but we can balance in 3 seconds from first wheel up on the bridge.
-Dick Ledford
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