Free Service Available For Teams At Nationals

[12th-martyr]

For all teams headed to the 2004 Nationals in Atlanta, Team Voltage 386 will offer a FREE robot power analysis and diagnostic service to all teams. This includes:

FREE Battery Load Testing

FREE Drive Efficiency Analysis

FREE Robot Power Diagnostics

Current & Voltage: +/-200A Main, +/- 600A, +/-100A, 15 V

More than 100 REAL-TIME samples per second, from up to 8 sensors

Robot voltage and currents are monitored, displayed and stored in real-time on a remote laptop, over 802.11 WI-FI network.

Check out the web site at: http://www.teamvoltage.org/RoboPower/Introducing_Robo-Power-1.htm

[Kris Verdeyen]

This sounds like a great idea!

Of course, I need more info, and the FAQ only whetted my appetite.

How did you come up with it?
Has it helped sort out any problems at a regional?

[voltage]

The service took about six months to make. The service not only helped our team at regionals with our drive by finding a motor not working but showd one of the teams how much current their drive was taking up and showed them their drive was tuned way too bad. They were having problems with breakers and now with our service they found out why. I believe we had a couple more teams want the service that we helped.

[Jim S]

I am interested in your software , did your write it yourself ?
Is there any way to test our robot this off season?

thanks jim schaddelee
team 107 mentor

[aaronbr28040]

Thanks to you guys. It helped us find a dead breaker right before a match. Driving on three motors instead of four wouldnt have been much fun. Even though you had some problems getting hooked up due to limited space around our wiring you all still took time to get everything going. Once again thanks and I hope to see you next year at a few competitions.
-Aaron

[TheLostRenegade]

Yea, thanks for what you and your team provided. It helped out our team figure out various problems with our robot. Thanks!