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Originally Posted by BugByte
We discussed the difficulty in lowering our robot at length yesterday. Our robot is really tall and a level 3 climber. We set up a belay system with 80 pounds of weight at the height our robot would be and none of our prospective drivers could keep it up without putting weight on the belay line. If the robot falls and pivots there is wide radius where people could get hurt. I'm really curious about how this is going to work out with all the chaos on the field. Happy to not be in a week one competition this year.
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Tell your drivers to hit the gym. 80 pounds of weight split between two people is only 40 pounds each. You have at least three weeks before competition, you can see real gains in strength in that time, and if you are a mid to late competition, you could have more than two months for strength training.
If your drivers can't safely take the robot down, you will likely get a yellow card, especially if you have trouble every time you go out there. You don't want a yellow card.
Wetzel