How did you use the FP motors?

[sanddrag]

We used them in our six motor drive train

[Logan Byers]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

We used them in our six motor drive train

we do too! 461's six motor drive train

[henryBsick]

We use our FP's to extend and retract on our 11.5 foot arm. Both FP's and their gearboxes turn a spindle that winds and unwinds spectra cable. We can get the arm all the way out in about ...4-5 sec.
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Here is a good pick of the arm and its FP's.
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[Jaine Perotti]

Team 716 used used one FP motor to drive the joint of our secondary arm.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=9866

We combined the FP gearbox and the kit gearbox together to create the proper reductions needed to lift the tetras. So far it works wonderfully. The FP barely even gets warm each time we run it. While I wouldn't say it is the most compact arm joint out there, it does the job well, especially for the first time our team has ever attempted to build a complex arm (well, more complex than anything we have done in the past).

Come check it out at UTC, New Jersey, or nats.

-- Jaine

edit: I found some pictures of our arm setup; one is a picture of the KOP gearbox with the drum from the FP gearbox attached, the other is a picture of the FP and its gearbox. The two are put together and...voila!

[Validius]

yea, one of the mentors found some couplers that used to be on an old barbie jeep and we used them for the bot.

[Billfred]

How did 1293 use the FP motors?

We used it to add to the mass of our box of motors.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

We used 2 of those babies to power our main arm. Both are coupled into a shared shaft, which has a small sprocket attached. That sprocket then sits on a fixed chain "roller" system. While it may add a little weight, it saves us the frustration of chain tensioners. It also makes for easy swap on/swap off of motors and sprockets.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=35032&

I dont care what anyone says, the FP motor is one of the best in the kit!

[Jay H 237]

We didn't use them. As a matter of fact we gave them to Tom^ since we have no plans for them.

We only used the FP one year, 2000, to drive a belt and that was it.