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Originally Posted by varunsrg
Hey guys I am rookie this year at my robotics team. I am doing electrical. I wanted to know the basic things an electrical needs to know help build the robot. If any of you guys have like a walkthrough or some kind of website where I could get educated please post and help me. THX  |
As pointed out, reading the robot section and Tips and Guidelines are the best start for rookie teams. If you have further questions, you may ask here or PM me and I will try to answer your direct questions.
Please follow the guide for wire size selection as it closely relates to the breakers you use in your design. My recomendations are to feed all Chalupa motors (CIM), Fisher Price and the compressor with #10 wire as short as possible. Use the terminal block to distribute loads and returns so that currents are not shared in the same wire. Above all, any wire used in the terminal block must be stripped 5/8" before insertion. Any less and you will push the wire out of the terminal when you tighten the screws.
Finally, the WPI site should have some of the rookie workshop presentations up in a few days. When they are posted I will alert you here. There is an electrical presentation in PowerPoint that will be available.