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Posted by Benjamin Piecuch at 05/25/2001 11:45 AM EST


Engineer on team #175, Buzz Robotics, from Erico Fermi High School and Hamilton Sundstrand.


In Reply to: How 45's double-drive motors came together
Posted by Andy Baker on 05/22/2001 10:09 AM EST:



We used the same Double-motor setup as 45. We piggy-backed the FP motors onto the Drills, and were able to use the standard gearbox. However, we still haven't taken advantage of the shifter mechanism. To accomplish the piggy-backing, we EB welded another gear to the rear output shaft on the Drill motors, and had a similar housing to link the two motors. We incorporated some cooling ports, a visual port to check the alignment, and a couple areas for the wires to be feed through. It worked perfected, and never had to replace either a drill or FP motor.

We did have some overheating problems with the FP motors, but that was after the season when we were doing a demo with the robot. We had the speaker stand in the goal, while we dragged him around on some pretty thick carpet. The motors didn't really like that.

Overall we had tons of power, and with some pretty grippy custom wheels our traction was excellent. Too bad we didn't have that system in last years' robot.

We were fortunate (unfortunate?) enough to be matched up in Galileo with the Technokats at Nationals. They eventually knocked us out in the semi's. Congrats to Team 45 once again on a great robot and a fantastic drive/balance system.


Ben Piecuch