lets bring some you never know if we might need it ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Kane To: eagleengineering@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: [eagleengineering] Re: Ballast Oh and we're not changing the thread at Atlanta. The old stuff is staying on the wheels, so we don't need to bring any new thread. -Jeff Michael Montazeri <chaoticprout@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Yes, and taking into account what happened at So Cal, we don't want to look bad at qualifiers because we totally changed our drive train. On Apr 10, 2005 8:50 PM, Jeff Kane wrote: > Ya, the drive train is alright. We should just add weight to the back like > Mr. Mitchell had said. Changing the drive train in Atlanta on Thursday will > be somewhat of a big task and chances are, we will have many problems. One > will be having drive wheels in the front on the bent chassis. The drive > wheels are bigger and that will also not affect the robot rocking over the > front wheels. We have about 10 spare pounds on the robot that we can use > for adding extra weight, so we should see to adding some weights in the > battery box, or on the chassis. Oh and Nick...most of the weight is in the > back. The b attery, gearboxes, and the two posts holding up the arm are > closer to the back of the chassis. Only when the arm is extended over the > front of the chassis does it seem like the weight is out there because of > how the center of gravity changes and the robot rocks on the front wheels. > Turning will also be durastically changed too because the turning radius > will be around the front of the robot where the arm is rather than the back > of the robot, where all of the weight is. > > -Jeff > > > Michael Montazeri wrote: > I'd rather not change a working drive train at Atlanta.... > > On Apr 10, 2005 6:43 PM, Karen Hillblom wrote: > > that is an issue that we were discusing befor we shiped the robot > > that problem can be fixed by puting the 4 driven wheels to the front > insted > > of the back and have the omni wheels in the back & gt; > because most of the weight is in the front > > that way there is no added weight and turning should be about the same. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Nancy > > To: eagleengineering@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 5:00 PM > > Subject: [eagleengineering] Ballast > > > > > > > > I had a thought today about the robot rocking onto the front wheels, and > > loosing traction. > > > > You may want to look at your remaining weight bud get, and add some dead > > weight under the battery. > > > > Five to seven pounds would be good. > > > > This would lower the center of gravity and keep better traction. > > > > > > > > The down side may be more difficult turning, due to better traction. > > > > > > > &g t; The video I shot of the semi finals shows the robot clearly rocking onto > the > > front wheels, and the traction wheels freely spinning. > > > > This started the robot rocking back and forth almost wildly as it > approached > > the scoring tetra. > > > > > > > > Let me know what you think! > > > > > > > > J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > > > Director of Engineering > > > > Cinesite Digital Studios, Hollywood. > > > > ________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com