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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
Not to be pedantic but you can't use Victor 883's. You need to use Victor 884's (which have been available for the last two years).
As for the spikes connected to the pneumatics, yes they are necessary. Without the spikes it would be impossible to switch the compressor and the solenoids on and off.
You most definitely need more than one circuit breaker. Each Victor gets placed on its own circuit breaker. If the Victor is driving a drill motor or a CIM motor, it should be attached to one of the 40 amp circuit breakers. For any of the other motors, it should be attached to a 30 amp circuit breaker. The spikes which drive motors are connected to 30 amp circuit breakers while the spikes connected to solonoids are connected to a 20 amp breaker. The robot controller is a 20 amp breaker.
To connect a circuit breaker to the RC, you need to put the circuit breaker in series with the positive power terminal for the RC.
You need to use the full size RC on this year's robot. You can't use the EDU RC.
Matt
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We're not officialy competing because we couldn't get our registration fee, but we decided to build a robot for practice, because we plan to compete in '05. Well actually, It's not just for practice, but we haven't released other plans for it yet, because they're not all ready. OUr drill motors are the old 3/8" ones, so we were going to use the Victor 883's because we were kinda hoping that there might be another team that could lend them to us, because we can't afford them. Also, we have and old Full Size RC, but we're using the EDU one for most stuff (we're using the Full Size for the OI and the EDU for everything else) because it would be a waste of time for our programmer to learn P-basic for the Full Size RC. Thanks for your help.
Allison