Image Discuss: Team 217 Thunderchickens 2003

[Paul Copioli]

Lauren,

We were not planning on bringing the presentation, but several teams have asked us to bring it and we just received our provisional patent number from the U.S. patent office so we will have a display at every regional. We have plans to combine this year's tranny with last years to form the "TechnoCCT" so I think our display will follow that theme.

Regarding the help we received from Al, Mike and others; it turns out that we had a couple of bad brushes on the F-P motor from last year and you couldn't really tell until they were ripped apart. Stangesense was indicating that the F-P motor was drawing a high amount of current, but we didn't know why. We had it fixed by the Championship and have not had any problems with the tranny since.

We are using the Technocat's idea from last year. 2 speed with pneumatic shift. Our drive is a cross between crab (swerve) and skid. Our rear wheels turn like for crab, but our front wheels are locked. We are 4 wheel drive.