how many of u actually used the stacker if u had one?

[Alaina]

We used our claw to stack in all of our practice matches, and one or two qualifying matches.

[jonathan lall]

I don't believe we managed to (or needed to) stack two in any actual matches. But we could.

[Daniel Brim]

Originally posted by Koci
We used our stacker, but certainly not to the same extent as some of the others. I was really impressed with the rookie team 1114's stacker. It was phenomenal. I heard they got a stack of 8 (I would have seen it, but I'm the driver).

Our stacker was very similar to 1114's, but we never got around to using it. It had a conveyor, it could hold boxes (with shelves), it had a tentioner (sp?) so if we had a large stack, and we were bumped, the stack would say. The only real flaw I saw in our stacker was the fact that we need to orient the boxes first.

[Ianworld]

My team used its stacker all the time, it was great for bashing boxes and the arm it was mounted on flipped us back over many times.

We never had time to practice stacking. Otherwise we probably could have done a few stacks.

[CyberKnights182]

Nope, we never really used our stacking mechanism. We had arms that could move up and down, the little arms attached to those that moved side to side(for picking up totes) Our engineers came up with thise whacked out pulley system that everyone on the team thot was iffy, but ended up being alright. We primarily used our stacker to plow thru the totes in our auto mode, but our main strategy was to get the KOH points at the end of the match. We pretty much depended on our awesome tranny (8 ft/s high speed, 1 1/2 ft/s low) and its awesome power to get us up there and not be moved. Plus, the grippy tank/conveyor belt treads we used were had awesome grippiness on the top of the ramp and we barely ever moved.

If ya wana see any pics ... http://www.pbase.com/shsrobotics/our_robot

[Steve W]

Team 1114 - Sally did stack 7 at Championship. Way to go and prove Canada Rules.

[Melissa H.]

We did have a stacker and I'm not sure if we ever got to stacking...but at nationals, we "gave up our stacker for Lent" and resorted to defending stacks and pushing bins around.