pic: Team 701's Electronics

[Steven Sigley]

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[scottydoh]

Am I missing something , or have you guys left out your main breaker? It looks like the Anderson connector for the battery goes right into the power distribution board...

[keehun]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

Am I missing something , or have you guys left out your main breaker? It looks like the Anderson connector for the battery goes right into the power distribution board...

WOW yeah that could be a serious issue with the inspectors

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Pretty! You gotta give em that.

[sgreco]

The breaker may have fit more conveniently somewhere else, so they may just be plugging it in to the plug on the power distribution board. Also, I doubt this is the entirety of their electronics, I may be wrong, but I bet their using more than just two motor controllers.

[dodar]

the rest are underneath

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by dodar

the rest are underneath

Actually It doesn't look like the breaker is attached to the anderson connector on this board. Picture seems pretty clear about it.

[dodar]

i meant the rest of the jags

[gallo26]

They probably have it connected separatly on another part of their robot. Just like they have the quick disconnect for the motors, they have the same for the on off switch. Looks like its to make sure thay can easily remove the board, yet keep the main breaker in a place that's easily accesible.

[Foster]

Wow!!! Two things:

1) That's a really amazing board, love the two level design, love how everything is mounted together with minimal spacing but little chance for shorts. I like how there are Anderson connectors to allow the entire board to be dismounted and moved. I'd like to see the far side power connectors to see how they are arranged.

2) I'm surprised how the first batch of responses were negative. From the picture and the text above and below you can tell they thought things through, unlikely they would "forget" the breaker.

Cool board team, I hope you win an award for it.

[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by gallo26

They probably have it connected separatly on another part of their robot. Just like they have the quick disconnect for the motors, they have the same for the on off switch. Looks like its to make sure thay can easily remove the board, yet keep the main breaker in a place that's easily accesible.

Exactly, the on switch stays on the robot while the board can come out if work needs done. The other nice thing is all of those components are mounted on surgical tubing to help absorb some of the impact if we don't go over a bump as smoothly as we'd like.

[MWB]

so it looks like you are using no pneumatics. and did you know that you can make a ribbon cable for your digital sidecar so you dont have to have that huge thing coming out of your board. also are you not using pwm, but using a rj11 jack, and how does that work?

[cjlane1138]

What kind of quick connectors are you using for the jags and where can I find them???

[McGurky]

They are using Anderson power connectors, they can be found through many online retailers.

http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-powerpoles/

[DonRotolo]

Very nice wiring job. I like it.

If room on the robot permits, you might (!) want to consider moving the "radio" away from so much metal. The antennas inside the D-Link work better away from all metal (as much as possible). It should be OK where it is, but if it can be moved you might find it better.