How much does your robot weigh?

system · February 8, 2003, 12:47am

How much does your robot weigh? We’re a bit overweight and will have to sacrifice some frame to make the weight limit.

Gope · February 8, 2003, 8:17am

We’re not sure, but i promise that it’ll weight 129.9 when it’s done.

sanddrag · February 8, 2003, 11:26am

We are just under 94 with chassis, drivetrain, and battery right now. Haven’t weighed the specialty system(s) yet.

srjjs · February 8, 2003, 3:03pm

You don’t have to be done to weigh the robot. Just weigh the individual pieces before you put them on.

Cory · February 8, 2003, 3:06pm

Im hoping that our bot will weigh in at around 125lbs or less. Our chassis with drivetrain, all essential electronics, and battery is currently 55lbs with a 10lb(or less) second level waiting for subsystems to be mounted.

Cory

Katie_Reynolds · February 8, 2003, 3:35pm

Robot? What robot? …

Katie

scuba_sm · February 8, 2003, 5:35pm

Our Robot weighs about 75lbs with all essential components on it, but we just may reach 100 (maybe by ziff-tying metal rods on again…). All in all, we may not even aproach the weight limit, it’s the one thing we’re counting on not having problems with!

-S cubed

jonathan_lall · February 8, 2003, 5:44pm

We’re 94 without a battery; I believe the battery is 14 lbs. This may be the first time we’ve been so underweight this far into building.

Scott_team_48 · February 8, 2003, 8:00pm

As of friday after school we weighed about 137 lbs. but we immediatley started cutting un-needed pieces so im not sure what we weigh now.

Josh_Hambright · February 8, 2003, 8:12pm

mmm anti gravity…

system · February 12, 2003, 10:26pm

Yeah we are definitely reduced to “speed holes” in our robot and it is getting pretty desperate so pretty soon we are going to be putting speed holes in our battery! Our motto from here on out is “It is too late now just drill!”

Aaron_Lussier · February 12, 2003, 10:31pm

Our fully put together bot weighs 117pds with out any speed holes… hehe Decoration time

f22flyboy · February 12, 2003, 10:33pm

I can pick up the entire bot w/ battery, electronics, and drivetrain, but unfortunately we haven’t attached our lifter yet

Robb_Gerber · February 13, 2003, 9:39pm

Force=Mass X Acceleration

We’re going for 130.0 lbs again!

Pass me the lead weights!

Jeff_Waegelin · February 14, 2003, 8:56am

We haven’t finished yet (we’re still assembling) but all the parts weigh 127.6 lbs

Ricky_Q · February 14, 2003, 9:40am

Amazingly enough, we weighed in yesterday at 128.6 lbs, we thought for sure we we’re gonna be over, we have a gearbox with 2 drill motors on it and a 100tooth steel gear, it alone weighs 22lbs

Greg_Perkins · February 14, 2003, 9:50am

*Originally posted by Ricky Q. *
**Amazingly enough, we weighed in yesterday at 128.6 lbs, we thought for sure we we’re gonna be over, we have a gearbox with 2 drill motors on it and a 100tooth steel gear, it alone weighs 22lbs **

I doubt your gear weighs 22 pounds, we used a hundred tooth geasr last year and it only weighed 3 pounds

Bad

system · February 14, 2003, 10:02am

*Originally posted by badjokeguy *
**I doubt your gear weighs 22 pounds, we used a hundred tooth geasr last year and it only weighed 3 pounds

Bad **

The Gear doesn’t weigh 22 pounds, the 2 drill motors and the gear do Plus its made of steel…

Ricky_Q · February 14, 2003, 10:16am

*Originally posted by D.J. Fluck *
**The Gear doesn’t weigh 22 pounds, the 2 drill motors and the gear do Plus its made of steel… **

Yea, and the plates and the other gears, its a 40:1 reduction

camtunkpa · February 14, 2003, 10:18am

Earlier in the build season we were looking at weight as a major issue because our wheels weighed 16 lbs all together, but we are skimming under the weight limit and no speed holes