Hey, head programmer, and co-head electrical guy on (no-longer rookie team) 1002 here. Having basically had to wire our robot several times over, I pretty much have gotten used to the wiring scheme, so I think I can help.
If you havent had the chance to talk to the others real-time yet, read on, otherwise if you're all done, then my post is pointless and disregard it as it probably wouldnt help you out now :-P
motors are wired to the speed controllers. The other side of the speed controllers should be connected to the fuse panel....but wait a second, what tells the controller how fast and in what direction the motor should go then?
There are three small sockets in a row on the speed controller perfectly spaced to accomodate a PWM cable. On the controller, it is labeled which color wire on the PWM cable should go on which side, in case there is any confusion.
This PWM cable should go back to the RC and be plugged into a PWM output (corresponding to the one it is programmed with in the code, but I'm sure you can match this up if you've had that experience coding (or learned quickly when your teammates yelled at you when the left joystick controlled the right side of the robot and vice versa lol)).
As far as the motor going inbetween the two pieces of aluminum angle, sounds like you get the joy of making your own motor mount
This can be a challenge, and is one reason why many teams were glad that the kits last year came with plastic motor mounts for the drill motors. making a motor mount out of a reletively thick wood or sturdy metal (such as aluminum plates of reasonable thickness) might be an idea, milling out a hole for the drive axle of the FP motor would appear to me to be a viable option, then screwing or boltin the metal plate to the aluminum angle. this would stabalize it up, down, left, and right (going by your diagram). As far as stabalize it from moving in and out.....uhm zip ties! lol might not be most professional but I think it could work, then again I'm not exactly a mechanical person (while I have a few good ideas once in a while, I generally stick to electronics and programming).
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RobotCoder@yahoo.com, or simply reply to this post. Hope I helped
