How good are your tires??

[Cory]

Originally posted by dez250
oh guys since our team has a real field ramp, full size made, well its almost complete but what i wanted to say is your bot wont work with tracks at the top of it, it will be to rigid and will slam down at the top also if your bot only weighs 55 pounds, i hope you dont plan on staying on top of the HDPE platform, cause 55 lbs will slide right off, that stuff is slicker then ice and your bot will be pushed right off. Well also there is one more thing i would say about goling up the ramp with your bot but since i want to get you guys thinking about it, whats goign to happen when you put anything weighing over 20lbs going faster then 2ft/sec at a 14degree incline, it wont climb! the bot will slide down the ramp if its going at all relitivly fast, or you prob are braking a rule if it doesnt slide right down or has traction on the grate (hint: you cant have anything go through the open 1"x1"grate squares...)
~Dez
www.team250.org

Hateto break it to you, but we move t 3-4 fps in low last yr, and we can move up the ramp easily with last yrs robot. It bottoms out, but lwoering the axles takes care of that

Cory