3992 Shooter Prototype - Major distance and height!

[ksafin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBvVV...ature=youtu.be

Horizontal distance is about 50 feet, with a height of about 20 feet.

[StAxis]

That's amazing! Any specifics on the motors and gearboxes you're using? Would love to try that out!

[ksafin]

Thanks!

We're using 1:1 gear ratio on both gearboxes. Both gearboxes are Modulox Lunchboxes.

The back gearbox has a CIM motor, and the front gearbox has a Mini-CIM motor.

[CalTran]

That's crazy accuracy if you could hit that garage pole almost every time...and it sounds like a MONSTER. Reminds me of our shooter last year; every time we rev'ed it up, it sounded like we were using a chainsaw. Standard 8" pneumatic wheel on it? What's the compression?

[XaulZan11]

Very Impressive. But, I fear this may suffer from the "Kyle Boller effect" as in it is very impressive but not necessarily lead to winning matchs.

[ksafin]

It's fairly accurate. If you noticed, I had to hold it between my legs. The entire frame vibrates a lot when turned on, moving around the floor. If not held in place, it isn't consistent (obviously because its constantly moving and changing direction).

But yes, if held in place it seems fairly accurate.

Haha yeah quite the beast

Standard 8" pneumatic front and back at about 35 psi; I'm not sure what the compression was but I'll take a guess it was around 1/2" - 3/4". Not much. We didn't really measure it, just put our rail at the point where the compression seemed adequate.

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Very Impressive. But, I fear this may suffer from the "Kyle Boller effect" as in it is very impressive but not necessarily lead to winning matchs.

We never implied it would lead to winning matches.. Just like any shooter design and any robot does not necessarily lead to winning matches.

I don't know where you would draw this random assertion from.

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by ksafin

We never implied it would lead to winning matches.. Just like any shooter design and any robot does not necessarily lead to winning matches.

I don't know where you would draw this random assertion from.

My comment was more directed at the people who see this video and think they are screwed with their 20 foot shooter. Sometimes being accurate from 10 feet is better than being accurate from 100 feet.

I do not know if this shooter will be on your final robot or what your design goals are (winning award for innovative ideas, building a cool robot, winning matches) or what your strategy is.

Either way, it is a very impressive shooter.

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

My comment was more directed at the people who see this video and think they are screwed with their 20 foot shooter. Sometimes being accurate from 10 feet is better than being accurate from 100 feet.

I do not know if this shooter will be on your final robot or what your design goals are (winning award for innovative ideas, building a cool robot, winning matches) or what your strategy is.

Either way, it is a very impressive shooter.

Oh, gotcha.

Well thanks. We actually have quite some optimization to do on it but it's looking good.

[josesantos]

"Major distance and height" is an understatement! Are you guys running both motors at full speed or is there some kind of speed control involved?

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by josesantos

"Major distance and height" is an understatement! Are you guys running both motors at full speed or is there some kind of speed control involved?

Looks like it's just battery, main breaker, motors. So I'd say that it's running 5310, followed by 6200. No speed control.

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Looks like it's just battery, main breaker, motors. So I'd say that it's running 5310, followed by 6200. No speed control.

That is correct.

Both motors hooked up to PDB with a breaker between the PDB & battery for on/off toggling.

[Darth Drew]

Wow, your shooter is so similar to ours it's scary, great minds think alike I guess.

[dtengineering]

That's AWESOME.

<Tech Inspector Mode>

Just a few things to consider before finalizing your design... are those tires rated for 4,000 RPM, or whatever it is that you are running them at?

An 8" wheel at 4,000RPM would travel... let's see... 0.2m x 3.14 x 4000 / 60 = 42 m/s? That's 150 km/hr. I don't think many dolly carts are rated for freeway speeds!

And you can calculate the "g" forces acting on the tire pretty easily too...

No doubt you'll be building shrouds for the wheels as part of your design, but do a good job of it. If the frisbee, travelling at one half the edge velocity of your shooter wheel travels 50 feet, how far would a chunk of tire travelling twice as fast.

Or, for that matter how far would a chunk of thumb?

I don't want to take away from the fact that that is one heck of an amazing shooter, and I think it is awesome that you posted the video, and I know you've probably got some safety plans in the works already... but I also want teams to know that if they showed up with that shooter in that configuration that they would very like fail tech inspection.

Jason </tech inspector mode>

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

That's AWESOME.

<Tech Inspector Mode>

Just a few things to consider before finalizing your design... are those tires rated for 4,000 RPM, or whatever it is that you are running them at?

An 8" wheel at 4,000RPM would travel... let's see... 0.2m x 3.14 x 4000 / 60 = 42 m/s? That's 150 km/hr. I don't think many dolly carts are rated for freeway speeds!

And you can calculate the "g" forces acting on the tire pretty easily too...

No doubt you'll be building shrouds for the wheels as part of your design, but do a good job of it. If the frisbee, travelling at one half the edge velocity of your shooter wheel travels 50 feet, how far would a chunk of tire travelling twice as fast.

Or, for that matter how far would a chunk of thumb?

I don't want to take away from the fact that that is one heck of an amazing shooter, and I think it is awesome that you posted the video, and I know you've probably got some safety plans in the works already... but I also want teams to know that if they showed up with that shooter in that configuration that they would very like fail tech inspection.

Jason </tech inspector mode>

Seems like a ton of teams are running these wheels at 1:1 direct drive on CIMs.

They're not designed to run at such an RPM, but some statements from AndyMark say that it should be OK.

We've done some of the same calculations ourselves and are aware of the possibilities.

An upper rail to support the end of the shaft, followed by joining the upper rail with the gearbox is our next step.