pic: Teaser from First Team 971: She's gonna be lighting fast

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by dodar

Just curious because of the angle of the CAD file, is the claw within the frame in that posistion? I'm taking that this would be your starting position. Also, how heavy would this be?

The claw is currently out of the frame perimeter, but not by much. It's easy to extrapolate where it would be inside the frame perimeter.

CAD claims it weighs 110 right now with batteries and bumpers. I bet it'll creep up to 120 - 125 lbs. We'd like to keep it light so that it accelerates well.

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

In your experience have you found this to be noticeably beneficial?

When running our 2009 robot at demos, the student driving the bot noticed that he was getting what seemed like over twice the runtime once fans were installed.

Also, when running practice rounds, the fans make it so we can run more matches per set period of time, since the bot doesn't need to cool as much.