pic: Team 223 Chassis

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Wow... cut them some slack.

I'm sure a team that's been around that long knows what CG is, and I bet that's only 50-60 pounds of what's going on the robot, you don't know how the rest is distributed. For all you know that could be all 1/16" wall and be much lighter than you are guessing.

114 of all people should know that being tall doesn't necessarily mean poor CG.

Tall doesn't mean high CG, no.

However, tall & offcenter does mean unfavorable CG, typically.

Lets say that there is 60lbs there. Add in the chassis weight, lets say 15lbs, evenly distributed, and the rest of the 120lbs (putting 45lbs) on the other side. Divide that 15lbs for chassis by two and you get 67.5 (woo hoo) lbs on one side and 52.5lbs on the other side. Add in the height, and it gets pretty bad. Then add in the dimensions and it multiplies the problem.

And that's in the best-case, from what I can see.