SECOND shots

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by d.courtney

just a few questions, one how long does it take to start up from nothing, second how much battery comsumption is there, and last a mixture of the two questions, would it be benifitial to quit in the defence, or does it take to long to get up to speed, I can just see how that is going to be a big battery consumtion, then you add the pnumatics, which will take a bunch if it will be feeding only one ball at a time, and then your drivetrain, and the movement of this and last a ball colection of some sort. I see how it is an amazing prototype but your battery will run short I assume every match.

Where are people coming from with this "OMG everyone's battery is gonna die midmatch!!1!!"? Our 2005 robot, which ran something to the effect of 6 motors, a full pneumatics system and it lasted a good 12 minutes. While this year we'll be running more motors, I still don't see how a good fully charged battery could possibly die mid-match.

While I'm not assosciated with the team that built this launcher, ours reaches top speed in under 3 seconds.