02-02-2010, 08:33
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AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,737
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Re: Battery mounting
Last year on 1714 I made a little battery box out of Lexan that went around the lower third of the battery vertically. A piece of surgical tubing was attached to a frame member above the battery and routed under the cabling and hooked around a peg attached to the battery box. As good a method as any. I'll look and see if I have any pictures.
This year, I'm not exactly sure what 2791 is doing, I just know it'll be low on the robot and mounted to the frame. If your battery comes out, it's game over, so the more security the better. If you can't afford the weight for an enclosure for part of the battery (one made from 1/4" lexan with weight reduction was about a pound), then you should probably drill a few holes higher up in your chassis.
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