Minibot falls slowly?

Technical Programming
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A video is worth a thousand pictures, thus worth a million words :smiley:

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you short the motors :stuck_out_tongue:

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Care to expound? Would be appreciated.

Thanx,

David

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Maybe you could put some sort of ratcheting mechanism in there. http://www.vexrobotics.com/276-1546.html might be a good option.

-vivek

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Thought of something like that. Didn’t want to stop it hard enought to make the bot fall off the pole though (kinda would defeat the purpose :slight_smile: ).

David

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EKw0RInRw

Our team’s minibot does a very similar thing on purpose at about 1:48 in the video above.

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Ours is built differently, but could you explain how you got the motors to slowly roll? Ours prefers to zoom down.

Thanx,

David

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Ours also always comes down. Shorted the motors in series off the “normally open” on the limit switch.

http://www.frc272.com/2011Season/MiniBot_2_timed_run.wmv

I like this one the best. Hicups a little in the beginning before grabing. If 4.48 is a slow run for us I will take it.

David what is your gear ratio???

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Am I supposed to know my gear ratio :eek: ? To be honest, I actually don’t know all of that. I just built it :slight_smile: . It uses the largest tetrix gears in the FTC mini kit, and they go to the smallest gears mounted on the wheels.

Thanx,

David

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Okay based on that…I am assuming you are using either a limit switch or household light swtich to start/stop your minibot when it hits the top. Take whatever side you have left either normally open/normally closed output (depends on your design) and short that across your motors in series and you will get something similar to our result