Team 1781 2014 Chassis

[Jibri Wright]

https://skydrive.live.com/?mkt=en-US...FDFFC4DE%21105

This is what we got so far. We should be finished with the robot by the end of Saturday.

[Trey178]

Sweet looking frame you have there. Plus, your drive wheels are pretty close so it should make for good turning. Are the omni wheels for stability or do they serve another purpose?

[Team 2016]

It looks like the digital sidecar is is upside down and facing the floor. You may want to cover that, just to keep it safe.

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by Team 2016

It looks like the digital sidecar is is upside down and facing the floor. You may want to cover that, just to keep it safe.

Oh ya we overlooked that. Thanks

[Answer42]

Any reason you're choosing not to power the outside omni wheels? Unless you have the 4 middle wheels on a drop center you're reducing the percentage of the robots weight on the driven wheels by 1/2. This would effectively reduce your pushing power by half, given that your low gear would likely be traction limited with 100% of driving weight on wheels anyways. That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but given that you opted to have shifters on the robot, I would assume pushing force was a desired quality for your robot. I also ask because it seems like you have room to easily add another 9mm belt on those double wide pulleys to drive the outside omni wheels.

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by Answer42

Any reason you're choosing not to power the outside omni wheels? Unless you have the 4 middle wheels on a drop center you're reducing the percentage of the robots weight on the driven wheels by 1/2. This would effectively reduce your pushing power by half, given that your low gear would likely be traction limited with 100% of driving weight on wheels anyways. That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but given that you opted to have shifters on the robot, I would assume pushing force was a desired quality for your robot. I also ask because it seems like you have room to easily add another 9mm belt on those double wide pulleys to drive the outside omni wheels.

The four center wheels are dropped. We only wanted weight on the four center wheels and the Omnis are just there for stability.

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by Trey178

Sweet looking frame you have there. Plus, your drive wheels are pretty close so it should make for good turning. Are the omni wheels for stability or do they serve another purpose?

Yes the Omnis are just for stability. This year is going pretty well for us and everyone on the team is really excited. I'll tell them someone on Chief Delphi likes our frame