Thread: Broken robots
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Unread 28-09-2004, 23:10
Steve Howland Steve Howland is offline
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Re: Broken robots

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Originally Posted by Ted Boucher
disconnected wires
*remembers replacing an entire globe motor during eliminations between matches then finding it was a loose wire *

As for new ones...broken chain tensioners (maybe just us...), snapped chains, cracked lexan pieces, reversed wires on motors, chain falling off gears/tensioners, fried motors, broken pvc (in other years for us). I noticed some lose batteries this year too. A couple times opposing robots got inside our chassis by accident and pulled a few things apart, which required some motor protection and chain work afterwords.