How long is your arm?

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I think people are getting carried away with having a really long arm. It doesn't mean a thing if you aren't stable. It's like being a basketball player with hops but no handle.

Better to have the ability to go super high, and not use it, then to lose a match because you were out-capped. Besides, stability is easily achieved through the use of outriggers.

[KTorak]

We can reach up roughly 12.5 feet from the ground....

[Max Lobovsky]

Originally Posted by phrontist

Better to have the ability to go super high, and not use it, then to lose a match because you were out-capped. Besides, stability is easily achieved through the use of outriggers.

I disagree completely. Removing a joint (or extension) from your arm and losing 2-3 feet of reach for the sake of a greatly simplified, faster, more robust, etc, etc arm can be very well worth it. If you can cap faster and more reliably the majority of the time, you can definitley make up for the few times you get outcapped.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

I disagree completely. Removing a joint (or extension) from your arm and losing 2-3 feet of reach for the sake of a greatly simplified, faster, more robust, etc, etc arm can be very well worth it. If you can cap faster and more reliably the majority of the time, you can definitley make up for the few times you get outcapped.

You bring up a good point, espescially if you subscribe to the view that very few tetras will be capped per goal. I don't have a good response really, and it's too late for us to change

[Squeje250]

Originally Posted by Pit Bull 1126

have any pics?

Sorry .... we have pics BUT we will not be showing them till the Sussex Scrimage that we have up here in wisconsin, but if you dont see that we will be at Midwestern Regionals and the Nationals (we hope)

[Vince lau]

for our arm design the base of the tetra will be about 10ft from the ground

[Collmandoman]

16+ is very long? anybody think some teams will show up without a drivetrain? (just sit at the back, propped up and play it from there)

[Bcahn836]

Our arm is a little over 12'.

[80/20]

Our arm is about 9 feet and can stack about two tetras on the center goal

[JMH]

Originally Posted by PVCMike

in an attempt to keep our robot a secret untill we unveil it..ill just say we had to watch how high we went so we wouldnt hit the celing of the truck shop we work at. Remember, trucks are about 17 feet high...

How in the world do you get a 17 foot arm to stay stable in the air with about 10 pounds at the end.

[MisterX]

During match play we go up to 9' on the mast (11 feet before we put in limit switches and left some room for grip) and then a 3' and change actuating arm so stright vertical we are just over 12 but we never cap straight up so in matched most we will be going total that I forsee is 11ish which is still pretty nifty

[Pielord]

9 feet and there still whining about lifting all the weight!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ductape_man]

we can get 15 ft maxed out, but that might cause us to tip over....so 12 ft is our safety zone