Climbing -- battery or pneumatics?

[jake517]

Hello all,

My team has been trying to make our climbing mechanism work for a while now, and we finally have a solution.

Since the beginning, we have been planning on climbing the outside corner of the pyramid. Yes, we have to deal with the corner pieces sticking out, and yes we know that we will have to reach farther to climb. While we have had many obstacles to overcome, we finally found a simple solution that would allow us to climb the outside (and let any other teams climb inside the pyramid or on the faces of the pyramid.)

However, what we are concerned about is how much energy will we be using? We have been doing all sorts of calculations, but we still aren't sure if the battery will have enough juice for us to run around the field and defend, and still be able to climb the pyramid for 30 points (and then dump four frisbees for and extra twenty points at the top while we hang.)

Do any of you know if we should still go ahead and try to use the battery or should we be looking at pneumatics? We would like to try to avoid pneumatics if at all possible.

Thanks,
~4294