Neat Wires

[Jimmy Holmes]

I always enjoy seeing a neat wiring job in an electrical control panel.
Someone took great care in laying that wire out.

I only wish we all had more time and space to do the same in our robots.
I have seen some very nice wiring jobs this year and in the past. Maybe there will be an award for just wiring someday.
We always try to do a good job...but Time and space is sometimes against us.



Jimmy Holmes
Team RUSH 27

[Rich Ross]

I can't help but wonder how much all those zip ties weigh....

[mtaman02]

Now that is the neatest wiring layout I have ever seen and ditto on the Zip Ties Question / Comment.

[cire]

It looks real neat. I wouldnt fancy having to service it though.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Rich Ross

I can't help but wonder how much all those zip ties weigh....

At one point this build season, I took off a quarter of a pound on the bot just cutting off the ends of zipties ... There were so many, I just had to weigh them when I was finished. I wound up re-doing the whole board anyway on a different piece of material, and this time designed it so that I could use less zipties....

I'll find a picture somewhere of all of those ziptie ends on a scale...

Jacob

[Qbranch]

Ok... can't help it... robotics kid and all.... Is the picture of that wiring job from a large motor controller? With the large caps, fuses, heat sinked thing (most likely ac triacs)... leads me to think so.

Anybody know what that thing is?

-q

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

Ok... can't help it... robotics kid and all.... Is the picture of that wiring job from a large motor controller? With the large caps, fuses, heat sinked thing (most likely ac triacs)... leads me to think so.

Anybody know what that thing is?

-q

Without seeing a larger picture and more items I cant tell what it is. It appears to be close to either a speed controller or possibly just a motor start controller as the capacitors are hooked to the heat sinked items.

-Mike

[vivek16]

IT BURNS!! STOP THE NEATNESS!!!
..... methinks someone is uberanal...

[Priyadarshy]

well no one from 612 wired that thing thats for sure...

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by Priyadarshy

well no one from 612 wired that thing thats for sure...

We had a robot inspector at a regional who sounded like he wanted our robot to look like that.

I found a different inspector willing to trace our wiring instead.

[EmilioM]

Omg. I think our e-team leader's heart just skipped a beat... Not to mention I myself am a fan of zip-ties

[Morgan Gillespie]

That is some nice clean wiring! Here is what we have done with our robot's wiring for the past few years.

2007 Robot Wiring

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Morgan Gillespie

That is some nice clean wiring! Here is what we have done with our wiring for the past few years.

2007 Robot Wiring

Is that mid-build, or are you really just using two small CIMs in the drivetrain?

[GMAdan]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Is that mid-build, or are you really just using two small CIMs in the drivetrain?

The other two motors are on the other side which is right below the view of the camera.

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Is that mid-build, or are you really just using two small CIMs in the drivetrain?

Two more CIMs are at the back end of the robot which is not shown in this picture.