"The Little Things" - Helpful hints for all

[Mr. Lim]

Drivetrain gearbox integrated between drive rails:


Chain tensioner from off-centre drilled shaft:


Quick disconnect spade terminals on speed controller:


Surgical tubing to connect encoders and pots to shafts:


Mount PDB on spacers so you can run wires UNDER it (instead of around/over it):

[Mr. Lim]

Standard pigtail lengths on every motor w/ Anderson connectors:


Extra solenoids and speed controllers on the board:
-If a solenoid fails, we swap the tubes over to the spare solenoid and change the mapping in programming. Unused spare solenoids are plugged with tubes that have been folded over and zip-tied. This is a cheap plug that doesn't leak.
-If a speed controller fails, we disconnect the motor from the failed speed controller, and run an extension wire to a spare motor controller. Because there are quick disconnect spade terminals on all speed controllers, this is can be done very quickly. Programmers then remap to the spare controller.

[Justin Montois]

Thanks a lot for posting those, just awesome stuff.

[rsisk]

Mr. Lim, you rock! Diggin the PDB on spacers. That's going on the next robot

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Surgical tubing to connect encoders and pots to shafts:

Not sure how I feel about this one.

I would think the twisting slack the surgical tubing has would be a bad thing?