Falling over at the start of the match

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Posted by Justin Stiltner at 1/11/2001 1:21 AM EST

Student on team #388, Epsilon, from Grundy High School and NASA, American Electric Power, Town of Grundy.

Would any teams that have used the Fall over at the start of the match and use the 5’ deminsion horizontally idea share how or if they cushioned the impact? I was thinking of using the penumatic cylenders as a spring but not in a way to violate the rules. The cyleneder would have a flow valve on it and that would restrict the flow and the cylender would cushion the fall but wouldent be springy.

any ideas??

Justin Stiltner
Team #388
Epsilon
Grundy Va,

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Posted by Bill Beatty at 1/11/2001 10:18 AM EST

Other on team #71, Team Hammond, from Team Hammond.

In Reply to: Falling over at the start of the match
Posted by Justin Stiltner on 1/11/2001 1:21 AM EST:

Justin

We first built a system which used two 60 pound gas springs from SPI attached to casters. It worked great. The springs would collapse but the combined 120 pound force would return the bot to level. Unfortunately, we ran overweight, so we chopped off the gas springs and casters and just let the bot frame hit the floor. It hit HARD. We just tied everything down very well and ran with it. Biggest problem was keeping the electrics together.

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Posted by Justin Stiltner at 1/11/2001 3:53 PM EST

Student on team #388, Epsilon, from Grundy High School and NASA, American Electric Power, Town of Grundy.

In Reply to: Re: Falling over at the start of the match
Posted by Bill Beatty on 1/11/2001 10:18 AM EST:

: Justin

: We first built a system which used two 60 pound gas springs from SPI attached to casters. It worked great. The springs would collapse but the combined 120 pound force would return the bot to level. Unfortunately, we ran overweight, so we chopped off the gas springs and casters and just let the bot frame hit the floor. It hit HARD. We just tied everything down very well and ran with it. Biggest problem was keeping the electrics together.

Tnx for the info,
This will probally work for us because weight for us wont be a problem this year (we hope anyway We were 31 lbs under weight last year and we did very well… won the featherweight in the finals in both regionals and nationals.)

Justin Stiltner
Team #388
Grundy Va,