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Originally Posted by greencactus3
a couple questions from a rookie team..
is it really BETTER to have them mounted on a non insulating surface?
is it better to have them mounted on a board that is easily deattachable from the robot?
is using velcro to mount each individual component a good idea?
is it not a good idea to mount them to our frame directly using velcro?(our frame is aluminum)
how easily accessible should they be?
is it a bad idea to need to flip the robot over to take out the battery?
has there been any accidents that you know of where any part excluding the motors and fuses had to be replaced completely due to any reason other than physical disturbances?
how what gets HOT? the motors..... the victors? well they already have fans on them...
well anyways, please tell us what is BAD. and what we need to worry about or what we need to be careful of or what has to be however (other than whats on the manual)
just don't want to do anything wrong! thanks!
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Green Cactus,
You have a lot of good answers here, I am proud of all that responded. For us, we have used velcro in the past but were living with the experience of the bad speed controllers of the mid 1990's. For the past few years we have used perforated aluminum as a base, tywraps to hold things in place. We space parts out when we can to help with heat buildup (everything gets hot, motors most of all. Circuit breakers when they are continuously tripping too.) Parts should be accessible, if you get into the finals you won't have a lot of time to replace stuff so you want to be able to change it out quick. We have mounted our battery in a doored compartment under the robot for years. So you have to turn it over to change it, so what, you can't drop it on the RC accidently from there. If your wiring is insulated to begin with, you may not need to have the mounting surface insulated. Wood and lexan weigh a ton but a lot of teams use those materials for construction.