Size of KOP Crates

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

More likely, it's 4 miscellaneous items that came in too late to be packed in the kit totes.

Or fragile items such as sensors.

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Or fragile items such as sensors.

it could be nothing but foam peanuts, unless they are the game pieces.......

[EricVicenti]

Last year you may remember that the two banebots motors provided in the kit (RS-550 & RS-540) were not in either tote, but they were literally handed to us. I believe the small under 5lb items might be of this nature, and the only reason they are listed as <5lbs is to prevent teams from worrying about weight, while not giving away the nature of the item.

Why they were not in totes, I am unsure. They might have been too fragile, or perhaps they didn't arrive in time to be packed in the totes. Either of these issues could have been easily remedied, but no matter.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

it could be nothing but foam peanuts, unless they are the game pieces.......

Errr...you would need a lot of foam peanuts to get to just one pound...
My guess is that they're either game pieces or multiple small items just packed into one box and separated by dividers/packing peanuts/bubblewrap.

They also never mentioned how small "small" is, or specified a specific weight. That's starting to make me think that they contain something that could vary in weight and size...so each box may contain a different thing?

[McGurky]

got this email from another team that was organizing the kickoff i am going to.

This was in the list of stuff you need to bring

A vehicle capable of handling the kit of parts. There will be 9 items you will pick up.
They include:
• Two shipping totes (typical FRC issue)
• One controls kit – if you did not have it advance shipped to your location (this is a
rather large box – roughly 30” x 24” x 12”)
• One drive train kit (roughly 40” x 4” x 6”)
• One battery box (with two FRC batteries – roughly 8” x 12” x 10”)
• One FedEx envelope with shipping documentation
• Three small packages with miscellaneous KOP items (only several ounces each)

so the smaill box is batteries!

[EricVicenti]

Originally Posted by McGurky

A vehicle capable of handling the kit of parts. There will be 9 items you will pick up.
They include:
• Two shipping totes (typical FRC issue)
• One controls kit – if you did not have it advance shipped to your location (this is a
rather large box – roughly 30” x 24” x 12”)
• One drive train kit (roughly 40” x 4” x 6”)
• One battery box (with two FRC batteries – roughly 8” x 12” x 10”)
• One FedEx envelope with shipping documentation
• Three small packages with miscellaneous KOP items (only several ounces each)

Odd, that is a differently dimensioned chassis kit than we were told before. Because of the different dimensions on the battery box, I am more inclined to believe these figures. Before we were told the chassis kit was 6"x6"x36", and they could have mislead us as to not tip us off to a new chassis size. I would not be surprised if they upped the dimensions to 30"x40" this year to help accommodate for the larger control system.

Also, as they are switching chassis kits this year, it would seem an appropriate year to change the max size.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by EricVicenti

Odd, that is a differently dimensioned chassis kit than we were told before. Because of the different dimensions on the battery box, I am more inclined to believe these figures. Before we were told the chassis kit was 6"x6"x36", and they could have mislead us as to not tip us off to a new chassis size. I would not be surprised if they upped the dimensions to 30"x40" this year to help accommodate for the larger control system.

Also, as they are switching chassis kits this year, it would seem an appropriate year to change the max size.

I would be very surprised if they went to those dimensions as a robot that size would ne easily fit (if at all) through a standard sized door.

[Racer26]

28x40" maybe, but not 30x40"... that 2" is crucial for easily getting through standard doorways, especially if you put the robot on a cart.