crate weight

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Originally Posted by gburlison

Robot - 120 lbsA

batteries(6) - 85 lbs

You had 5-6 batteries in your crate? Keep in mind that each battery alone weighs between 13-15 lbs depending on how much of a connector you have on them.

I'm guessing for each of those batteries (to keep your crate FIRST legal) you had to make a separate storage box in your crate as well.

Also, what about tie downs for the robot? Any big pieces of wood, or other static fasteners??

I'm going by our crate which is made almost completely out of foam sandwiched between a thin veneer type wood, 2 batteries, robot, a piece of 6x 10' piece of bumper fabric, the bumpers them self (13lbs), and misc mounting hardware and also a robot stand (maybe 10lbs) is about 405 lbs when we shipped it on ship day in .

If you are really suspicious, make them weigh it again, or weigh it yourself before you ship it and then compare that with what they claim it weighs.

For this year, it's going to have to be one of those "live and learn" type lessons since you didn't weigh it before it shipped.

Also, if you debate it, I know in NJ 2004, they pretty much wrote it off, but we missed out on that cause we showed up late, and they said we had to pay or else we couldn't get our crate, and by that point we just wanted our crate..