What are you bagging and tagging?

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Whippet

We're bagging our electronics board and keeping our entire mechanical robot, which weighs ~42 pounds.

a 42 pound robot is going to get pushed around quite a bit...

[RamZ]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

a 42 pound robot is going to get pushed around quite a bit...

Too be fair, they also have their electronic board...
So a total of 45 pounds

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by RamZ

Too be fair, they also have their electronic board...
So a total of 45 pounds

Electronics board, battery, and some COTS weights we'll add for ballast at the competition.

[RamZ]

Originally Posted by Whippet

Electronics board, battery, and some COTS weights we'll add for ballast at the competition.

What's a ballast used for? I've heard the word when talking about trebuchets, is that what it's used for.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by RamZ

What's a ballast used for? I've heard the word when talking about trebuchets, is that what it's used for.

It's just used to weigh down our robot and keep our COG low. Ballast is basically just dead weight. A ballista, on the other hand, is a giant crossbow mounted on a turret. Pretty large difference.

[RamZ]

Originally Posted by Whippet

It's just used to weigh down our robot and keep our COG low. Ballast is basically just dead weight. A ballista, on the other hand, is a giant crossbow mounted on a turret. Pretty large difference.

Oh, I see, then I know a lot about those.

*cough* 50 pound bag of chain last year *cough cough*

[Matt C]

Bagging and tagging a running/driving 6 CIM base with rotating assembly.

45 lb withold is the 270 degree rotating turret that mounts on top, so that we can mount it on the second running/driving 4 CIM base with rotating assembly for practice.

Turret comes off with 4 bolts. (plus 1 air line and 4 solenoids worth of PWMs), and is installed in the same way.

[Lil' Lavery]

Unlike last year, we're bagging our whole robot.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by RamZ

What's a ballast used for? I've heard the word when talking about trebuchets, is that what it's used for.

noun
noun: ballast; plural noun: ballasts

1.
heavy material, such as gravel, sand, iron, or lead, placed low in a vessel to improve its stability.

Or potentially, in this case, to improve traction.

Note in FRC if you are using lead as a ballast it must be encapsulated and at no time should you shave, cut, drill, grind or intentionally do anything that could create lead particles or dust. It also can not be an additional battery even if it is not electrically connected to the robot.

[Christopher149]

Bagging ... basically everything, maybe even the bumpers. Everything's working, and the subsystems don't really separate well.

[Bmarshall645]

Were tweaking and fixing things with our robot today and were gonna be bagging and tagging a completed robot for the first time ever tomorrow. We are a rookie team so this is our first year having a completed robot to enter for competition.

[Nick Lawrence]

We're bagging the robot.

-Nick

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

We're bagging the robot.

-Nick

This.

-Bochek

[PayneTrain]

The whole shabang is getting bagged and crated the old fashioned way tonight. Ships out to Texas tomorrow afternoon. Good luck to everyone especially if you lost more than a week like 422 did.

[RamZ]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

The whole shabang is getting bagged and crated the old fashioned way tonight. Ships out to Texas tomorrow afternoon. Good luck to everyone especially if you lost more than a week like 422 did.

I feel kind of bad as a team taking advantage of the 45 pound extention limit, since here in California we don't get anything near snow...
But only kind of bad.