Need contact with South Texas FRC teams

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by richardmcc2

2158 is in need of a spare Keyang window motor to power our arm. Our motors performed well without any issues at Lone Star or Atlanta, but after a few demos back in Austin afterwards, the gear inside one of our motors has stripped (it's plastic). It works half of the time with one motor, but sometimes it will get stuck on one side of our robot and won't fold back up.

I can't remember off the top of my head which motor is bad (lefthand or righthand), but I can find out. My question is, are there any teams that will be there that could bring a spare window motor? We would be willing to trade for something or pay for it, the problem is that they are not available commercially.

I'll bring two of each type to the site. We didn't use a window motor this year. We CAD'd up a plastic insert for the FP motor/transmission that accepted the triangular lead screw nut. It was quite a contraption once the entire mechanism was done using some iGus linear slides inside of a a 4 inch PVC tube all connected to ansi 35 roller chain and and IFI mechanism sprocket on the arm.

I plan on arriving by 7:30 AM Thursday. What is your ETA and will you be able to switch out the motor?