I am made an elevated shooter and it has worked out pretty well getting us a triple crown win at our last tournament. I am using a 4 bar lift made from c channel that compacts under the 11.67in bar. How do I increase the height of my lift ?
triangular banding helps a large amount. even better, used DR4b if needed, but try not to elevate too much as it makes it easier to tip :0.
That wouldn’t increase the height of the lift.
To answer the question, you probably won’t need to make it go higher, but if you really want to, consider utilizing a Double Reverse 4 Bar.
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I need some help too. My robot design is having my license plates make my robot too long. Does this DQ my robot? let me know please
You should create a separate topic for this, but you won’t be able to pass inspection (and thus compete) unless you are deemed within the size limit.
Just curious has anyone tried to utilize a cascade lift this game ?
I’m sure someone has. VEX is a huge competition, so there’s not TOO much room for originality. With that said originality has a lot of benefits, and I haven’t seen many teams use cascade lifts. I implore you to at least prototype this.
Some people in Maine have had really tall cascade lift flysticks.
Could you give me a name, because Ima be so honest I have no idea how to build a competition level cascade lift? I saw the Kepler Electronics video but that’s not near sturdy enough for competition.
Remember that the current best strategy for this game is to have no lift at all, but to make quick relays of one triball at once.
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Not to be disrespectful but that is mainly in high school, my state barely has shooters in general and I’m an on 8th grade team. I’m trying to define our shooter because my state has a large population of robots with blockers and an intake. We still beat them because our current lift can see over them but we’re trying to ensure we can’t be blocked. Back to match strategy, for middle school my state has remained just shooting them over in clusters and then defending pushing robots and then repeat.
My robot has a 27" high-lifted puncher, and I still do both matchloading and bowling. I mostly have the lift because I just wanted to make one, and because innovate qualifies in our state.
cascades are very inefficient for this game and would not recommend, if people don’t have shooters and are focusing on blocking there is not much you can do
That was just an idea I was actually asking for tips because I’m trying to make the more vertical because it’s good at its purpose of not being blocked and I’m trying to stay ahead. That’s what I wanted tips and ideas on. For example does using standoffs instead of c channel allow you to get more vertical ? Are there methods to compacting into the bot more efficiently?
If you wanted a verticial very high way to elevate the shooter you could use the scissor lift and add tons of links to it . I do not recommend swtiching this late in the season thou just because it takes a bit to figure it out. Another thing is you will not be able to easily elavate as well as you can with a four bar. It is a little bit more compact ( it takes up a portion of your robot completely ). Also with a scissor lift you can make it your blocker if you want just because of how wide it is.
In conclusion if you want a stable way to maximize lift height you could go for the scissor lift. (I don’t recommend it thou)
Here is our old robot. You can look at it to see the drawbacks and advantages using a scissor lift to elevate your shooter.
Yes, definitely a DR4B! (Which i just said -_-). I said triangular banding since DR4Bs almost always need them. Triangular banding helps compress, and maximize if a piston or motor can’t reach all the way, which is why I offered to him to use a DR4B with triangular banding.
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yes it will if you are out of size since license plates are required.
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its hard to fit a slapper if I’m right but who says it can’t work 
First thing to consider before I can really give you an answer: where are your plates located?
Now, for my team since we were below the size limit by 5.5", we added a 1x5x25 C-Channel on the back of the robot for the license plates.
But please share a picture with me so I can have a look and see what you may can do. You may have to use smaller metal pieces, you may have to put the plates in an oddball spot. But I won’t know until you share what the robot looks like. If you can show the robot at all 4 sides of it. It makes that a bit easier for me.
Thanks, and have a great day!
C. Rhineheart
9545C Team
Well I’m an elevated flywheel so I’m solid with any lift type