pic: Team 701's Electronics

[dtengineering]

Hmm... interesting... no Spike Relay suggests to me that there's no compressor.

Mind you, with TEN jags, I suppose you might not need one. Let's see... four CIMs and two FP on the drive train... one CIM for a winch, two window motors for a kicker (or vice versa) and... a mabuchi for a ball magnet?

I like your design, especially the remote main breaker idea. We're doing something similar, but have put our main breaker and our solenoid valves into our "control box".

It will make up about 20 pounds of our witholding allowance and fits nicely into both the 'shipping' chassis and 'practice' chassis.

Jason

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Jason,
You're thinking too much again. Shouldn't you be watching the Olympics or something?

[3286]

Very very nice.....much like some of the aircraft stuff I used to deal with. Ill have to stash that idea away in my head for next year. Oh wait....we haven't even gotten ready for this year yet, what am I thinking!!!

Well, all the same...love the modular idea. Our bot this year is no way near that elegant, in fact more of the opposite view thinking " keep everything out in the open so we can track the fasteners that might fall out and know what caught fire first " for damage control purposes.

Mike

[Captain banana]

It looks so much better than ours. Seriously, ours looks like it's spaghetti.

[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Hmm... interesting... no Spike Relay suggests to me that there's no compressor.

Mind you, with TEN jags, I suppose you might not need one. Let's see... four CIMs and two FP on the drive train... one CIM for a winch, two window motors for a kicker (or vice versa) and... a mabuchi for a ball magnet?

Correct, no air system on this robot, and you were sort of close for the motor guesses.

4 CIMs to drives.
1 CIM to winch us up
2 Windows to move the arm
2 FP's to kick
and a Mabuchi for our roller.

[cjlane1138]

What kind of quick connectors are you using for the jags and where can I find them???

[McGurky]

They are using Anderson power connectors, they can be found through many online retailers.

http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-powerpoles/

[DonRotolo]

Very nice wiring job. I like it.

If room on the robot permits, you might (!) want to consider moving the "radio" away from so much metal. The antennas inside the D-Link work better away from all metal (as much as possible). It should be OK where it is, but if it can be moved you might find it better.

[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Very nice wiring job. I like it.

If room on the robot permits, you might (!) want to consider moving the "radio" away from so much metal. The antennas inside the D-Link work better away from all metal (as much as possible). It should be OK where it is, but if it can be moved you might find it better.

Haha thanks for the suggestion, but this electronics board is actually from 2 years ago when i was a senior on the team. This year's electronics are different, and still a work in progress. Thanks for all the constructive criticism though.

If anyone has any more questions about it feel free to ask, i'm more than glad to answer.