Cheap Electrical Parts

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by C.Lesco

Hey guys, my city is planning to build a community robot built over the summer so we can have rookie teams able to do outreach with it in their first year as well as have our community teams grow closer as a whole.

Problem is the electricals, unlike the frame and metal, you cant dumpster dive your schools auto shop waste bin to build half of your bot with. Is there a cheap alternative? Doesnt need to be FRC legal, just needs to be frc motor combatable.

I'd take a look at the Cheap and Dirty control system. Even if you use a different control system, the electrical setup is good enough for light-duty stuff. (You'd have to come up with different fusing to run 40A breakers, and I wouldn't run your 6-CIM drive on that in a pushing match...but it would drive.)

(Full disclosure: I'm starting at AndyMark in about two and a half weeks.)