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Originally Posted by pyrr101
Since I'm head of the electrical component of my teams robot, I came to a tally of 5 Victors and about 6 spikes this year.
I am really concerned that we have a cim running the whole match plus 2 more for drive train. Then the compressor kicking in after using the pneumatic action for the gun.
Anybody know about how much battery power we will have left when we usually go into a match with 13.6v?
Thanks
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Here's a tip on the constantly running CIM; turn it off. We are allowing our shooter speed to be controlled by both the camera and buttons manually controlled by the 2nd driver (we are adjusting speed, not angle, to change distance). When in manual mode, we will allow our operator to turn the desired speed down to 0 m/s, this way we can turn the motor off during defense (because you'll be spinning a motor for 40s pointlessly if it's left on since you can't score), and possibly when they're collecting balls and KNOW they won't be shooting. You just have to make sure you're drivers are smart enough to turn the motor on a few seconds before they need to shoot so it can get back up to speed.
As for the normal drive CIMs and pneumatics, don't worry much; every robot has those pretty much every year, as long as you replace batteries between matches you're fine.
Our tally this year comes to 7 victors and 3 spike relays. These are for...
Victors
4x Drive (CIMs)
1x Shooter (Big CIM)
1x Rotator (Window/Van Door)
1x Conveyor Belt (Fisher Price)
Relays
1x Compressor
1x Dumper for Corner Goals
1x Stopper for Shooter
I must say that is a nice electrical layout. I know we will be using 2 different levels for electronics because we don't have enough open space to have everything on one level.