pic: Canadian Carnage

[Derek Bessette]

Originally Posted by Richard

And the field was littered with robot parts ...

There may be a few people who don't know what happened to 1114. Based on the Medic! picture and on Jonathan's post in another thread it's clear that they smoked -- but why? Can someone provide details?

We didn't spend a lot of time trying to diagnose the problem as we had a match to get to. However, based on our quick assessment, it looks as though a bundle of PWM cables shorted the leads to one of our speed controllers, burning the insulation on the PWM cables and creating the large cloud of smoke. We decided to rip out all of the PWM cables and re-wire our drive motors before the second match. The other alliance graciously called a time-out to give us a little more time. We were almost able to get the elevator and launchers running again, but ran out of time. We played the last match as a very ineffective dumper. We were also having drive train problems as one of our shifter pins broke before the finals. The zip tie we jammed in the shifter to keep the robot locked in low gear helped us to keep things moving.

Congratulation to 1503, 610, and 1547. They did a wonderful job all the way through the wonderland event. It was great to face 1503 for the first time all season. It's too bad we weren't at our best, they would have been some great matches.