Recently my team has planed on implementing a lady brown mech into the bot, and I am wondering what a good motor layout is for the ring scoring.
Should I gear up my 5.5 watt for speed, and should I have it on the hook or the intake. The other motor will be a 600 rpm blue cartridge.
Where are you putting the 5.5w
On the lady brown?:
While speed is good a lady brown doesn’t Spin more that once, I would gear it closer to the 66rpm mark. 5.5w lady brown will work though
The preroller/intake?:
This can work, I wouldn’t need more than 5.5w, you only will need about 400 rpm here.
5.5w Hooks?
Haven’t seen this from anyone other than the early season whisper bot. I wouldn’t run 5.5w here
If you are asking for motor distribution I’d do
66w drive
16.5w chained hooks and intake
5.5w ladybrown
I would use the 11w motor on the hook stage, as that comes under more load when scoring on stakes. If possible, try and chain the two stages together so the motors share power.
On your normal intake, definitely gear it up for speed, as 200rpm is way too slow. I would gear it up to 600 rpm to make chaining it to the 11w blue cartriage motor easier.
Because we are already doing a redesign for worlds I will most likely chain the 2 together but just in case will the 5.5 have enough power to run 400 rpm?
I don’t think so. I would test it with your new robot.
Thank you everyone for your input that will be all
This is probably the best motor setup between intake and lady brown:
16.5 watt intake. 5.5 watt on first stage, 11 watt on second stage.
5.5 watt on lady brown. Make sure for the intake, to keep these 2 motors from connected to each other. It’s important to spin one stage without the other, thus allowing for getting rings unstuck, and effective autons.