"Motors and Drive train edition" of Fresh From the Forum

[Ken Leung]

Hello Everyone,

Now that third week officially ended, I am sure all of you have at least a basic design for your robot and a good idea of how it might look like at competition, and done a lot of testing on how to manipulate the goals and/or soccer balls. Depending on your progress, your team might have full size foam/cardboard prototypes, or even metal prototypes for some of you more experienced teams. Some teams out there will have a metal driving base, and some other teams might still be trying to figure out what gears/sprockets/wheels to buy.

If you are like me, or any engineers on anyone of the teams out there, you would be thinking about motors and gears (or sprockets, depend on your preference)… So this newsletter is made especially for people who like to stay up all night thinking about gear ratio, or what motors would fit where, or how to put together a 4 motor drive train.

Specifically, this edition of newsletter will include ALL you need to know about motors, gears/sprockets, and drive train from this forum.

So, without taking any more of your time, here is the “Motors and drive train edition” of “Fresh from the forum”.

Table of content:

I. FIRST 2002 Motors in General
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6701#post16701
II. In depth discussion of specific motors
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6703#post16703
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6851#post16851
III. Gears
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6853#post16853
IV. Drive train
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6963#post16963
V. Wheels and treads
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7038#post17038

"Gotten busy with your team now that season has started? Don’t fret, all the need-to-know info from the chiefdelphi.com forums right here at your fingertips..." -Fresh From the Forum

-Ken Leung
1999-2001: Team 192 GRT
2001~????: Team 000, 100, 192, 258…