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Re: Motorized Carts

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Originally Posted by jjack View Post
Or you could use some of your pre-2007 batteries.

We had a motorized cart last year, but we weren't using the motors to drive the cart. We used a scissor lift to lift our robot into a working position (the top of the cart was roughly waist level) when it was in the pits and then we'd lower it to a moving position (the top of the cart was roughly shin level) to move our robot to and from the field.

We also had a little area on the undercarriage we could use to charge our pneumatics before matches and keep our tools for any on field repairs we might have needed.
That sounds pretty neat, could you post a pic or something?