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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
Are you worried about damage with the brake? I know 40 put a pneumatic brake on their robot in 2006 and it gave them so much trouble they took it off by Battlecry (maybe mid-season?). People just kept hitting bashing them over and over it wracked their frame since there was no give. Of course... your robot looks to have a lot less cheese holes than a Trinity robot, so maybe it isn't a problem.
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We are worried, a little bit. We have 0.125in chassis side plates waiting in the wings if the 0.100in side plates don't quite cut it.
What we did to address the strength concern: with the belly pan mounted the air cylinder mounts are very close to three points of lateral stability: a dead axle, the bent-up part of the belly-pan, and the horizontal part of the belly-pan. They are also not designed to lift the robot completely off of the ground. The four 3/4in cylinders can generate a maximum combined force of ~106lbf, so assuming our robot weighs at least 107lb the center wheels will still be sharing some of the load, especially sideways where the air cylinder mounts are weakest.
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Originally Posted by magnets
These are seriously awesome. They remind me of some of the older 111 robots.
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Thanks!