Overweight!?

[PWelsh]

Because of the height of our robot this year we are having no troubles staying under weight. The other night we put everything we had done and everything we think needed to finish plus a little more and we were well underweight. This is my fifth year in FIRST and for the first time i dont see any problems with our weight.

Phillip Welsh
POWER-Storm 2360

[Chris is me]

~95 pounds with no robot cover. A hanging mechanism would probably bring that to 105 if that gets on. If the bumper frame (and hanging mechanism) are shipped, and 4 CIMS are removed to their COTS base, we're within 15 pounds of witholding. I suspect with strategic lightening, shipping of portions of the robot (replace with a spare in the shop, leave spare home to compete), we could get the robot chassis and ball manipulation down to 65. That's kind of a pipe dream, though... There's only so much you can revert to a non FABRICATED ITEM configuration on a robot.

[dmlawrence]

Originally Posted by PWelsh

Because of the height of our robot this year we are having no troubles staying under weight.

We ended up with a 17" tall robot weighing 128 lb.

As we like to say, the laws of physics don't apply here...

[FlyingHedgeHog]

We're looking at being 10-15 lbs underweight.

[theprgramerdude]

We're at 112 pounds with the battery (no bumpers), so it's around 98 pounds unloaded. We're going to add some small steel bars and 1/4 inch polycarbonate for a cover of the power distribution board and advertising logos, so unloaded it would come to around 110 pounds.

[BenX02]

40lbs under at the moment.

If needed, we're going to ad weights to the bottom to lower our center of gravity though.

[Trent B]

2502 is about 15 lbs under with a few very small parts left to add (we have large things to add still, but we laid them on the bot when we weighed it so they would be included), small parts are basically a few sheet metal things and a sensor or two.

[AcesJames]

176's robot is hovering around 110lbs by our calculation right now. When we get the last few bolts in, and put our plexiglass cover and electronics on today, we'll weigh it all together, and it will *hopefully* be a few pounds under 120. We reached our estimate of 110 by taking all of the robot's pieces we had already made and putting them on our scale. Obviously, not completely accurate, but pretty close for now. Our bumpers, however, are RIGHT at 20lbs. Actually, they might be a few ounces over, but I couldn't tell when I weighed them because our scale isn't digital.

[dodar]

bumpers are supposed to way 15lbs...arent they?

[Jon Stratis]

<R07> G. Each set of BUMPERS (including any fasteners and/or structures that attach them to the ROBOT) must weigh no more than 20 pounds.

A complete set (meaning all the bumpers that are on the robot during a single match - for a typical robot with a kit-bot frame, that would be 4 bumpers, one on each side) can weigh, at most, 20 pounds.

[Michael Ogden]

We are at 86.6 lbs, with a few more trinkets (i.e. the control board) to add, but those don't weigh more than 33.4 lbs (at least I hope not), plus 14 lbs of bumpers. We might actually have to add weight. O_o

[fsgond]

Originally Posted by Michael Ogden

We are at 86.6 lbs, with a few more trinkets (i.e. the control board) to add, but those don't weigh more than 33.4 lbs (at least I hope not), plus 14 lbs of bumpers. We might actually have to add weight. O_o

Bumpers don't add to the weight of your robot. They are taken off and weighed separately. Please read them manual regarding weight and specifications of the robot.

[My-smokepole]

We are running about 6lb heavy right now.
my-smokepole
Team 279