How are <1.5 sec Minibots doing it ? Gearbox mods allowed ?

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

This is blatantly incorrect. You are allowed to modify the gearboxes but not the motors. Anyone who said otherwise just doesn't know the rules.

Thank God. I don't know, our mentor, team captain and anyone with "authority" blantantly said "no David, no". Now for LA we are just making our MB super fast. Honestly though, we had a very very reliable deployment and minibot. (11:15 made to attempted ratio) It was slow, but that got us to Semi Finals and apparently we ended the competition at rank #4. I am impressed.

[Chris is me]

A slow minibot that makes it every match made our #6 spot on our pick list (maybe a little lower, I don't have it). It's all about consistency.

[WizenedEE]

Is very, very reliable 11:15? Less than half?

We haven't gone to an actual competition yet, but we've never failed in deploying - obviously, it will be different with all of the other robots flying everywhere, but still. What was yours like during testing?

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by WizenedEE

Is very, very reliable 11:15? Less than half?

We haven't gone to an actual competition yet, but we've never failed in deploying - obviously, it will be different with all of the other robots flying everywhere, but still. What was yours like during testing?

Honestly, it was fail proof, but not human proof. It is programmed that the robot backs up into the pole as it deploys so it is guarantee that it deploys. The 4 were human errors such as forgetting to put the deadman switch on or driving away from the pole as it deployed or going to the pole too late(we just get pushed around) But it makes it every single time as long as we set up around 25 sec. But we did not choose to use the arm (we zip tied it to the robot), so we went defensive (because of our design flaw, that was our down fall) then deploy every match.

Edit: that was not the gear ratio, I am saying reliability > speed. We had a 4 second minibot


Edit: that minibot alone got us to the #3 spot (we dropped down to #4 when we DQed for getting pushed into the scoring zone by the other robots several times at the semis)

[Bjenks548]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Edit: that was not the gear ratio, I am saying reliability > speed. We had a 4 second minibot

Speed does play a huge factor once eliminations hit. We were on the number 5 alliance going against the number 1 alliance. We had one minibot, they had 2. The only way we could win was to get our minibot up first and let them score 2 and 3. We also had to outscore them on tubes. We beat them. While reliability is what gets you picked. Fast minibots get you a win.

[The Lucas]

You can always modify any gearbox unless the rules (or Q&A) specifically states you cannot modify it because it is integral. Currently, the only legal modification you can make to the Denso window motor gearbox/motor is removing the pins (all other mods illegal, however you can do this). All other gear boxes are fair game for mods.

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

You can always modify any gearbox unless the rules (or Q&A) specifically states you cannot modify it because it is integral. Currently, the only legal modification you can make to the Denso window motor gearbox/motor is removing the pins (all other mods illegal, however you can do this). All other gear boxes are fair game for mods.

No, you cannot do that with a desno motor,
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=17054

however, the motor/gearbox combo photo is still legal due to this.