FRC 95, The Grasshoppers, Build Thread

[Chris Endres]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Started our drive-train burn-in only to have the burn-in go a little too literal for us...

Side plate off to investigate:



Yeah... had some rubbing chain tensioners...



Milled them down, reassembled, and tried out some defenses.

Moat

Low Bar

Did some crossing exercises, everything looked good, until...



Weirdest chain failure I've seen, and the only one I've ever had on a 95 robot. Master-link was good, fractures are on opposite sides of the chain loop, tensioners were installed and slack(ish), and our nominal FoS is around 4 or 5. Bizarre...

This was my biggest concern, along with cracking wheels, when designing this year. I would suggest getting a lot of spares for competition. Going over the obstacles and slamming into the ground will definitely break chain, as you saw first hand. At least it happened now and not at a competition.