pic: 2007 Robot Brain

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Stephi Rae

Did you have a muffin fan nearby to keep them cool?
If you didn't, or even if you did I guess... did they give you any trouble?

No sir, we did not have a muffin fan. We did not have any fans besides the ones on the speed controllers actually. If I had more pictures of the different views, you would see that the speed controller fans are mounted to where they air flows in narrow aisles. We did not have problems with the cooling of speed controllers. Also as Arefin mentions in the post above there is a lot of metal cut out of our Cat Plate (the plate that everything was mounted onto (it is called the Cat Plate because my mentor thought it looked "cat-like")) so there is also direct airflow to the speed controllers from underneath.

Originally Posted by GMAdan

wow that a lot of stuff in a little space, didn't your victors get really hot

No sir. They were warm after some hard (demanding on the Victors), close to back to back matches at the Bayou, but never hot.

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

Pavan, if you have a picture of the bottom view of that board, please post it. A lot of people will be inspired after they can see how much weight can be taken out just from one sheet of metal. That is one of the most neat electrical board I have seen all year long. Kuddos to you guys.

I will try to get some of the modeled pictures that the controls team made using inventor this year to give you a better idea as to how the bottom looked as well as different views so that you can see how air would flow.