pic: How our shift happens...

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by SirCharles982

I don't have an exact time, but not that long I would say... The spacing between gears is roughly 1/32", so once it's out of one gear, it's already engaging the other.

I assume that's slightly exaggerated, and it doesn't actually engage both gears at the same time?

[Qbranch]

Wow... nice shifter... is that a airplne servo up top or a motor? Seems to be a lot of gear reduction for the gear-reduction-changer.

Wow... Ludicrous Speed... I feel like watching Spaceballs now...

-q

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Wow... nice shifter... is that a airplne servo up top or a motor? Seems to be a lot of gear reduction for the gear-reduction-changer.

Wow... Ludicrous Speed... I feel like watching Spaceballs now...

-q

It's another motor on top. The reasoning for the extra reduction is because just driving the worm gear off the motor wasn't a fast enough shift for us, but with the 1:3 reduction before the worm reduction our shift is much nicer.


On a side note, brownie points if anyone can get the sand-crawler reference...

-Chuck

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by SirCharles982

On a side note, brownie points if anyone can get the sand-crawler reference...

-Chuck

I'm assuming you're referring to the incredibly slow Jawa sand-crawlers from Star Wars?

[Alex Cormier]

illegal.

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

illegal.

Care to elaborate on that?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

Care to elaborate on that?

haha, i would have thought that chuck would have said that first.

it's better then my 2 speed trans design. so therefore it's illegal.

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

I'm assuming you're referring to the incredibly slow Jawa sand-crawlers from Star Wars?

Indeed!

Unfortunately, we don't have droid transport on the inside!

[joshsmithers]

Favorited! It's a beauty. quite compact. Curiosity: how long have you been working on this project?

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by joshsmithers

Favorited! It's a beauty. quite compact. Curiosity: how long have you been working on this project?

Honestly, from start to finish, about 5 days... came up with the idea, thought of ways to accomplish it, designed it...those took about 4 days, then built in one day. Works better than we thought.

[Tottanka]

Any chance for a video?

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Any chance for a video?

I'm working on the video right now. Hopefully it will be posted by the end of the week.

[Alex Cormier]

how aboot the rest of your bot?

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

how aboot the rest of your bot?

Thats the top secret part...lol

I'll out some teasers of that out for ya Alex.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by SirCharles982

Thats the top secret part...lol

I'll out some teasers of that out for ya Alex.

sounds good. i realized, i need a new WAI. So once i win the vex comp, i'll take a new one with the winning robot.