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Re: pic: 3 Hour Chassis + 2 Hours

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I agree with the direct-drive on the center wheels, that will get all of the heaviest objects directly over your primary drive axle, and close to the center of rotation.
There's a chain reduction, so direct driving the center wheel isn't possible without a gearing change.
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There's a chain reduction, so direct driving the center wheel isn't possible without a gearing change.
Good point, but in the previous thread on this topic the OP mentioned making custom gearboxes.
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There's a chain reduction, so direct driving the center wheel isn't possible without a gearing change.
From the looks of it the small sprocket on the toughbox looks to be about 16 tooth and the sprockets on the wheels look around 48 (Very ROUGH numbers) and assuming its a standard toughbox the overall reduction is 28.3:1 and those look to be 6" wheels so the top speed would be 3.05ft/s

Or on the back side of that wheel the sprocket is smaller than all the others and after looking at the AndyMark website the smallest sprocket (#25 I am assuming) is 32 tooth and the sprocket on the toughbox output shaft is still 16 that means the overall reduction is 25.5:1 and the top speed is 4.57ft/s

From what I know your average single speed robot is ~9ft/s which would cause me to thing there is some sort of difference in the toughbox or the extra chain reduction can be removed and supplemented with one of the many gearing options AndyMark has for sale.

After going back to the old thread I see that your wanting to get ~12ft/s which you can do by using the Toughbox with the optional 9.87:1 and direct drive which would give you ~11.82 ft/s

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Re: pic: 3 Hour Chassis + 2 Hours

You could consider a 1x1 bar of 80/20 insead of what you have for the cross pieces. The ends can be tapped for a 1/4 20 bolt and you can just bolt it to the outer plate. This also leaves you a lot of flexibilty on the inside as far as mounting other components.

I think it would work nicely in a prototype like this. My team actually used a very similar frame to this this year, aluminum side plates, cross beams extending to the outer plate, toughbox transmission etc...Anyway the 80/20 worked nicely for us on the cross braces.
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You could consider a 1x1 bar of 80/20 insead of what you have for the cross pieces. The ends can be tapped for a 1/4 20 bolt and you can just bolt it to the outer plate. This also leaves you a lot of flexibilty on the inside as far as mounting other components.

I think it would work nicely in a prototype like this. My team actually used a very similar frame to this this year, aluminum side plates, cross beams extending to the outer plate, toughbox transmission etc...Anyway the 80/20 worked nicely for us on the cross braces.
The only potential issue with that is 80/20 in comparison to hollow tube, it's very heavy. For an off-season drive train, that would be an excellent idea, though I would recommend against it for a competition bot.
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The only potential issue with that is 80/20 in comparison to hollow tube, it's very heavy. For an off-season drive train, that would be an excellent idea, though I would recommend against it for a competition bot.
Yes this is true...to be honest I'm not a fan of 80/20 for its weight reasons(even though my team used it with out problems this year. We didn't make our whole frame out of it though, we only used it for crosses)...

80/20 is unneccessary if your team CADs well, because you can plan all of your cuts ahead of time. 80/20 can be nice if your team likes to make it up as you go and constantly be taking off and adding parts. (not that you can't do it with other materials, just 80/20 makes it easy).

I would still recommend it for a prototype though.
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The only potential issue with that is 80/20 in comparison to hollow tube, it's very heavy. For an off-season drive train, that would be an excellent idea, though I would recommend against it for a competition bot.
Not really, 80/20 weighs almost exactly the same as 1/8" wall 1" square tubing.
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Not really, 80/20 weighs almost exactly the same as 1/8" wall 1" square tubing.
And 1/16" wall 1" square tubing is called for.

For the hollow tube in general, you're right. But for the specific hollow tube called for, 80/20 will be heavier.

Comment on the cross-braces: I'm not quite sure I'd trust a 1/16" wall for that application in that pattern. Change the pattern, and you'll probably be fine--but run the analysis just to make sure.
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Not really, 80/20 weighs almost exactly the same as 1/8" wall 1" square tubing.
It's close, a foot of 1x1 80/20 weighs .53 pounds and a foot of 1x1 1/8 wall weighs about .512 pounds. This is assuming 6061. They're so close its negligible.

(These numbers are what SolidWorks is telling me).

You can pocket 1x1 tubing, but you can't pocket 80/20 so that could be included in the weight tradeoff.

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i would recommend the use of C channel instead of square pipe, it can be just as strong if oriented correctly, and it is lighter as well as easier to attached.
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From the looks of it the small sprocket on the toughbox looks to be about 16 tooth and the sprockets on the wheels look around 48 (Very ROUGH numbers) and assuming its a standard toughbox the overall reduction is 28.3:1 and those look to be 6" wheels so the top speed would be 3.05ft/s

Or on the back side of that wheel the sprocket is smaller than all the others and after looking at the AndyMark website the smallest sprocket (#25 I am assuming) is 32 tooth and the sprocket on the toughbox output shaft is still 16 that means the overall reduction is 25.5:1 and the top speed is 4.57ft/s

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After going back to the old thread I see that your wanting to get ~12ft/s which you can do by using the Toughbox with the optional 9.87:1 and direct drive which would give you ~11.82 ft/s
I've done no calculations regarding gear ratios, chain reductions, or overall speeds yet. I felt that there were more pressing structural concerns in my design that I needed to adress before conquering the gearing.

That 9.87:1 Toughbox seems interesting, but if we're going to buy more Toughboxes, we might as well just make our own (lighter) gearboxes. I just threw the Toughboxes in the CAD in the event that the team wanted to save money and use the Toughboxes we already have.
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I've done no calculations regarding gear ratios, chain reductions, or overall speeds yet. I felt that there were more pressing structural concerns in my design that I needed to adress before conquering the gearing.

That 9.87:1 Toughbox seems interesting, but if we're going to buy more Toughboxes, we might as well just make our own (lighter) gearboxes. I just threw the Toughboxes in the CAD in the event that the team wanted to save money and use the Toughboxes we already have.
If you like the gearing in the Toughbox, there are lot of weighs to reduce weight. You can mill out some of the material in the side plates, get aluminum gears instead of steel, or just cut out material in the gear sand sprockets like this http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30614

I'm all for custom gearboxes, but if you want to keep it simple, you have a lot of options.
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After going back to the old thread I see that your wanting to get ~12ft/s which you can do by using the Toughbox with the optional 9.87:1 and direct drive which would give you ~11.82 ft/s
Running 12fps without shifting and using roughtop tread will lead to a lot of current issues as well as iffy acceleration.
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