pic: when metal shavings met digital sidecar

[Briansmithtown]

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Shavings are NOT a digital sidecar's best friend

[Peyton Yeung]

This is an unfortunately familiar sight...3 fried digital sidecars in 1 regional.

[Mark McLeod]

You gotta stop doing that, but I see what you meant when you said that this one was really burnt.

[Briansmithtown]

I haven't seen one as badly burnt throughout my experiences.

[PayneTrain]

Have you tried keeping metal shavings out of the digital sidecar to see if it improves performance and reliability?

[Seth Mallory]

Think of all the weight you would save not storing your metal shavings in you sidecar. Your robot would go faster with the lighter weight.

[jsasaki]

At least you wont need it for competition next year.

[vladtheimpaled]

Originally Posted by Seth Mallory

Think of all the weight you would save not storing your metal shavings in you sidecar. Your robot would go faster with the lighter weight.

This digital sidecar will continue to be our metal shaving storage box.

[BBray_T1296]

Consider mounting all your electronics upside down or sideways to prevent collection.

[Tommy F.]

We always kept a thin blanket and a vacuum around the shop and the pits to cover our electronics and then use the vacuum near the drill to collect all of the shavings to prevent this kind of thing.

[Briansmithtown]

I say we should have no electronics! we will innovate a way to do so!

[Henrique Schmit]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

I say we should have no electronics! we will innovate a way to do so!

Great idea, instead of motors and cylinders we could use rookies, and to control them you just scream instead of needing a computer and a radio.

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

I say we should have no electronics! we will innovate a way to do so!

I know, hydraulic logic ! Then we just have to sweat high-viscosity fluids in a maze of twisty little passages.

[RKazmer]

And if the sidecar doesn't burn out, one component won't work so you search the robot for the problem only for it to be one little piece between two pins.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

And this is why we have to keep mechanical away from the robot!