23-06-2014 22:50

Peyton Yeung

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This is an unfortunately familiar sight...3 fried digital sidecars in 1 regional.

23-06-2014 23:00

Mark McLeod

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You gotta stop doing that, but I see what you meant when you said that this one was really burnt.

23-06-2014 23:10

Briansmithtown

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I haven't seen one as badly burnt throughout my experiences.

23-06-2014 23:22

PayneTrain

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Have you tried keeping metal shavings out of the digital sidecar to see if it improves performance and reliability?

24-06-2014 00:03

Seth Mallory

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Think of all the weight you would save not storing your metal shavings in you sidecar. Your robot would go faster with the lighter weight.

24-06-2014 06:06

jsasaki

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At least you wont need it for competition next year.

24-06-2014 07:21

RKazmer

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And if the sidecar doesn't burn out, one component won't work so you search the robot for the problem only for it to be one little piece between two pins.

24-06-2014 07:42

Al Skierkiewicz

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And this is why we have to keep mechanical away from the robot!

24-06-2014 08:20

vladtheimpaled

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This digital sidecar will continue to be our metal shaving storage box.

24-06-2014 08:40

BBray_T1296

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Consider mounting all your electronics upside down or sideways to prevent collection.

24-06-2014 11:42

Tommy F.

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We always kept a thin blanket and a vacuum around the shop and the pits to cover our electronics and then use the vacuum near the drill to collect all of the shavings to prevent this kind of thing.

24-06-2014 15:54

Briansmithtown

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I say we should have no electronics! we will innovate a way to do so!

24-06-2014 19:31

Henrique Schmit

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Great idea, instead of motors and cylinders we could use rookies, and to control them you just scream instead of needing a computer and a radio.

24-06-2014 20:06

chrisfl

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Let the flames begin!

24-06-2014 20:43

T-Dawg

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I say we call this new concept "football".

24-06-2014 22:06

Brynne McConnel

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Almost as bad as sand in the gearboxes. These are thing things I cry about at night by the way.

24-06-2014 23:22

tcjinaz

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I know, hydraulic logic ! Then we just have to sweat high-viscosity fluids in a maze of twisty little passages.

25-06-2014 00:17

Briansmithtown

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I mean I can see the electrical to be frying a lot next year because, well we all know, water game...

25-06-2014 01:16

caboosev11

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This is the only ethical way to replace motors. If you use, let's say, a hamster in a hamster wheel, that's just wrong. Abusing animals = bad. Animals are adorable.

25-06-2014 11:27

Briansmithtown

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Would be the cutest game ever!

25-06-2014 12:11

Gregor

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...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=129731

25-06-2014 16:56

greasemonkey

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Sounds like a party

25-06-2014 18:49

scca229

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So this would be like a lot of the "coaching" going on behind the driver stations

26-06-2014 14:38

MattInAHat

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How do you get sand in a gearbox?
I don't know about you but we tend to place our random piles of sand outside of the metal shop.

26-06-2014 15:04

Al Skierkiewicz

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The same as putting gears in the sandbox I think?

26-06-2014 21:01

Kayla_Wallet

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At one district event my team got a metal shaving in ours and we couldn't figure out why nothing was working... Luckily it didn't get fried

26-06-2014 21:34

BenDSterling

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We have done that twice now. Now we cover all the electronics, or even remove them, when ever we are cutting metal on our robot.