Kettering Results from Week 2

[Raumiester2010]

Originally Posted by IKE

This format reinforces the need for a robust robot and prepared pit crew.

ill agree with you on that one... we got lucky and our robot still hasn't suffered any major breakdowns (knock on wood) and we missed all the practice rounds because we did another one of our famous "change our strategy/robot on the first day of competition" like at Atlanta where we did a huge re-mod last year which, like in this instance, made us WAY more competitive than we would have.

oh ya, if anyone was wondering why we didn't move on the first match of quarter- finals, bad batts SUCK. we checked it with the volt meter and it read out 13 volts, when it went under a load it dropped to 9. couldn't move at all. i feel kinda bad because a lot of us thought it was the programmer's fault, thought it was bad code.

so, heads up to other teams about the tricky batteries. the only way we could check it was to run it for a second in the robot before the matches.
maybe you guys can come up with a better solution but thought i would give everyone a warning.

Good luck to everyone in the coming weeks and congrats to team 33 on chairmans