All 12 Motors (w/o y-cables)

[2775Josh]

@harrypotterrgeek

try to make a single motor goal intake, we have one and are able to lift the mobile goal. I think u have enough time to order y-cables. U have one month

I rebuilt my mobile goal intake, and it uses one motor instead of two!

[2775Josh]

@Brian_9605A

I’m not 100% sure on the legality of it, but you could solder together your own y cables from excess 3-wire extension cables.

Nope!

[2775Josh]

@BottomNotch

you could make your own Y-cables to use until the real ones are delivered, just don’t show up to a competition with the homemade ones.

I may try that. Let me go grab my soldering iro- wait- I don’t know how to do that. In reality, though, I’ll probably just unplug my mogo while I’m testing with cones.

[BottomNotch]

@2775Josh

I may try that. Let me go grab my soldering iro- wait- I don’t know how to do that. In reality, though, I’ll probably just unplug my mogo while I’m testing with cones.

It’s a valuable skill to learn. And you can get almost everything you need to get started pretty cheap at your local harbor freight.

https://www.harborfreight.com/30-watt-lightweight-soldering-iron-69060.html
https://www.harborfreight.com/helping-hands-60501.html
https://www.harborfreight.com/lead-free-rosin-core-solder-69378.html

besides that you should also get a sponge (which you likely already have), and it’s also good to have a solder vacuum and some solder wick in case you ever need to desolder anything.

here’s a few good tutorials for soldering:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-solder-through-hole-soldering

Soldering Wires Together

Proper Soldering Iron Cleaning & Maintenance

it’s probably not worth all the effort just to make a couple of non-competition legal y-cables, but in the long run it’s a worthwhile skill to know.

[2775Josh]

@BottomNotch

It’s a valuable skill to learn. And you can get almost everything you need to get started pretty cheap at your local harbor freight.

https://www.harborfreight.com/30-watt-lightweight-soldering-iron-69060.html
https://www.harborfreight.com/helping-hands-60501.html
https://www.harborfreight.com/lead-free-rosin-core-solder-69378.html

besides that you should also get a sponge (which you likely already have), and it’s also good to have a solder vacuum and some solder wick in case you ever need to desolder anything.

here’s a few good tutorials for soldering:
How to Solder: Through-Hole Soldering - SparkFun Learn
http://www.instructables.com/id/Soldering-wires-together/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Proper-Soldering-Iron-cleaning-%26-maintenance/

it’s probably not worth all the effort just to make a couple of non-competition legal y-cables, but in the long run it’s a worthwhile skill to know.

Cool!

[Gameoa]

I Y-cabled the control input on our expander for our 4 motor drive. Since I have a 4 motor drive I wired all the motors into the expander and Y cabled the control inputs. The 2 right side drives motors with one input and same for the left.