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Re: 816's Robot as of 2/2/08

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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
I like the tennis balls too, A mentor on our team ordered some orange and blue balls from a school supplier. It takes about 10-12 seconds to move the ball up and about 20-30 seconds for a full hurdle. I might get some video up in the coming week maybe late monday or tuesday.
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Some more specs:

2 Cims through the KOP gearbox
25:22 reduction
6" Wheels
~10FPS

Chain Powered Lift
Van Door Motor with a 1:1 Ratio
A respectful suggestion since you still have 2-ish weeks left. That's a really really long lift time, and the van door motors are rather low power. Why don't you look into using an extra CIM motor through a dewalt transmission as detailed in the Nothing but Dewalts whitepaper. If you need the hard to backdrive properties of the van door, you can always leave the anti-backdrive pins in the edwalt transmission. With proper gearing you could probably get your lift time down to 3-4 seconds.
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