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Competition Rules/Strategy
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part B states:

The Trailer Hitch must be rigidly attached to a fixed location on the ROBOT, with the long dimension of the Trailer Hitch horizontal and the opening of the C-channel facing away from the ROBOT. The horizontal center line of the Trailer Hitch must be 2-13/16 inches above the floor.

But if you build a robot with a 6 wheel design, with a drop down middle wheel, the robot would pivot and therefore the height of the hitch would change. Anyone have ideas/opinions? The rest of my team thinks that the change in height will be small enough to be irrelevent, but I want to be sure.

I’d post this on the Q&A myself, but no one knows the password to get on.

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http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11160

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You do not need your team’s official login to read the Q&A, it is only necessary to submit questions.

The GDC has already answered this question:
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11160

During inspection, acceptable tolerance on the Trailer Hitch altitude will be +/- 0.25 inches. During the MATCH, acceptable tolerance on the Trailer Hitch altitude will be +/- 0.50 inches, based on the dynamic motion of the ROBOT.

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You can find your password in TIMS. Ask one of your mentors (your TIMS contacts) to go in and find it.

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Ok, thanks. I did go to the Q&A section to look, don’t know how I missed that. Thanks :slight_smile: