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Re: Under or over weight?
So far, we are underweight. Our chasis, drivetrain, battery, compressor, electrics, etc, weighs in at 83 lbs, or 70 lbs san battery. So far, all of the arm components weigh about 35 lbs.
Last year we found we were 19 lbs overweight a week before ship. The solution, starvation diet. Also, for those of you overweight, 12 AWG is heavy, especially over long runs. Last year we saved ~4-5 pouns by trashing our beautiful neatly laid out electrical system which must have wasted miles of wire. It really is possible to lose weight in the electrical system.
On a side note. We were vastly undereweight rookie year (due to an arm that got chainsawed). Although we were out of town, one of our mentors had a 25 lb bag of steel buckshot in his truck. Buckshot + HVAC zipties == awesome ballast.
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