pic: Average Winch Innards

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by JesseK

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The pictures of the full assembly are the closest to "magic" I have seen in FRC in a long time. Very cool design.

Thank you, and thanks to all who joined this discussion.

I apologize for my cryptic description. Had meant to add a picture or sketch of the complete assembly, but I have been traveling on business this week and don't have access to team drawings from here.

The comment that this winch design is not very weight-efficient is correct; the observation that low bar robots like ours typically had weight to spare this year also applies to 3620. This winch worked for us because it fit in the space we had available, and put the weight where it helped us. We also thought it was cool to hide the CIM inside the drum and use its body as a spindle. As Noah said, our climber was not very fast. It helped in a few situations, but often we were more productive shooting in the final seconds. However, you cannot beat scaling for wow factor. Our triple at IRI with HOT and HYPE will live in my memory forever.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

Quite a few low bar bots had weight to spare and had space at a premium. We did something similar with our ball collector for aerial assist, made some good confusion faces happen when people tried to figure out how it worked. Wish I would have taken a closer look at this one this year.

This is extremely true. I know of a number of bots that competed <100 lbs. Heck, Perses (the 'Snow Problem Ri3D) was around 70 without the battery. Probably the last time we'll see a game where space is at more of a premium than weight for a while.