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Re: Weight Poll

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
We are trying to find something cheap to use as 10-15 pounds of ballast so we aren't playing Lunacy on the carpet. Someone thought of a disconnected battery, but I nixed that one...
Doesn't take a terrible large volume of steel to get up there. We used to get scraps of 1/4" steel plate from the local snowplow factory and stack it up.

We've got something like 40 lbs to play with (who knew a simple robot would be so light!), so some ballast is in order to move our CG to somewhere there isn't structure at 30".
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