team 2175 fighting calculators 2012 robot

[Timz3082]

Originally Posted by Boe

first of all we we are aware that four motors is overkill
having the 3rd and 4th motors reduces the amount of time required for the wheels to spin back up to speed. It also allows us to fire a key shot at 40% power instead of 90% power (just guessing percents here) and plus its just awesome

Our key shot is about 40% with only 2 775s... Methinks four motors is overkilling your battery, but that is my opinion. Also, what was the reason of your poor ranking at superior?

[Boe]

Originally Posted by Timz3082

Our key shot is about 40% with only 2 775s... Methinks four motors is overkilling your battery, but that is my opinion. Also, what was the reason of your poor ranking at superior?

the main reason was probably not getting our shooter tuned in, and our bridge appendage got hit and snapped on one side and bent on the other (our ski was out while the bridge was pushed down on the other side and it fell onto our ski). through all this we did manage to balance quick and efficiently almost every match which got us a spot on the third seed alliance.
ultimately we lost in quarters due to some great defense by team 93.

[Timz3082]

Originally Posted by Boe

the main reason was probably not getting our shooter tuned in, and our bridge appendage got hit and snapped on one side and bent on the other (our ski was out while the bridge was pushed down on the other side and it fell onto our ski). through all this we did manage to balance quick and efficiently almost every match which got us a spot on the third seed alliance.
ultimately we lost in quarters due to some great defense by team 93.

That's too bad. May I ask if you were using encoders or how you controlled the speed to maintain constant depending on battery charge? Did vision work for you?

[Boe]

Originally Posted by Timz3082

That's too bad. May I ask if you were using encoders or how you controlled the speed to maintain constant depending on battery charge? Did vision work for you?

we did use encoders to keep constant speed on our wheels, it was really just figuring out the speed we needed. as far as i know our vision lined us up most of the time. The balls just vary so much from new to slightly used to dead which varied distance by a lot. why cant all the balls be exactly the same that's all i'm asking for FIRST please