pic: FRC 4329 Presents Trogdor

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by 1493kd

Take two cylinders of the same stroke that equal the stroke you currently have and mount them opposite each other, you now have a 3 position cylinder. If they are two diffrent strokes that equal the orginal stroke you have 4 positions. We switched our motor driven intake/shooter to a system like this and its is magic.

PM me if you want more info/pictures

All thanks go to Brian from 2791 for introducing this to me

So a big thanks to Brent & 1493 here. With his advice we were able to get our 3 intake positions by using 2 large actuators and one small helper actuator. You can see our initial test here: https://youtu.be/1D2Iy8q8ayA We need a slightly longer actuator to bring it back up to full vertical but other than that we're very happy with it.

[Chris Endres]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

So a big thanks to Brent & 1493 here. With his advice we were able to get our 3 intake positions by using 2 large actuators and one small helper actuator. You can see our initial test here: https://youtu.be/1D2Iy8q8ayA We need a slightly longer actuator to bring it back up to full vertical but other than that we're very happy with it.

Looks familiar .

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Chris Endres

Looks familiar .

If we've made anything that looks similar to Wildstang then we must be doing something right See you guys week 5 in Chicago!

[silverD]

Originally Posted by 1493kd

Take two cylinders of the same stroke that equal the stroke you currently have and mount them opposite each other, you now have a 3 position cylinder. If they are two diffrent strokes that equal the orginal stroke you have 4 positions. We switched our motor driven intake/shooter to a system like this and its is magic.

PM me if you want more info/pictures

All thanks go to Brian from 2791 for introducing this to me

We did the same thing for our intake this year. We used a 6" and 4" cylinder mounted together to end up with a four position cylinder with 10" of stroke that when both are retracted is no longer than a 6". We retract the 6" to extend the intake to shoot and retract both the 4" and 6" to fully extend for pickup. You can see them in action in our reveal video.

Edit: should have read the second page. Looks good!

Nate

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by silverD

We did the same thing for our intake this year. We used a 6" and 4" cylinder mounted together to end up with a four position cylinder with 10" of stroke that when both are retracted is no longer than a 6". We retract the 6" to extend the intake to shoot and retract both the 4" and 6" to fully extend for pickup. You can see them in action in our reveal video.

Edit: should have read the second page. Looks good!

Nate

Sweet reveal video! Good luck this weekend!

We got some more practice in tonight and recorded a few videos -

1st solo breach attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfIcDkJT2uU

Trying out category A defenses: https://youtu.be/U45g6taPsJs

We will get some practice on a full field tomorrow in Wentzville (thanks 1706!) and will record some more videos.

[dradel]

Probably used to hold their intake a different angles. Strait up to be inside perimeter at start of game, let it angle down so can go under portcullis and push down on the teeter totters