Ideas for Turning Point

[1378_Yung_Gravy]

Our team was thinking about making a flywheel at the front of the RD4B so that it can be 100% accurate to shoot the flag when the RD4B is line up with the flag, and we are going to have a passive caps intake at the back of the RD4B so that it can be score on the post. (it will be extended at the start of the match), and all of them are the new V5 modor.
1:5 with 2 torque motor for the RD4B
5:1 with 1 turbo motor for the flywheel
1:1 with 4 motor Highspeed for the base
1:1 with 1 Tourqe motor for the roller intake and a chain for the ball to go to the flywheel.

(sorry for the grammar error I’m not good at English.)

[9181D]

You can only extend your robot outside of the 18" in height within the taped area in the southern portion of the field.

[1378_Yung_Gravy]

Do you mean that we cant extend our robot vertically when we are close to the flag???
And we can’t extend our robot horizontally??

[GBHS_VEX_Member]

Do you mean that we cant extend our robot vertically when we are close to the flag???
And we can’t extend our robot horizontally??

Vertically- yes. You cannot when you are near the flags, only near the poles.

Horizontally- You can only extend up to 36" in a single horizontal direction.

I bring up <SG2> for this.

<SG2> Robot expansion is limited once the Match begins. As per <G3>, at the beginning of a
Match, each Robot must be smaller than a volume of 18” (457.2 mm) long by 18” (457.2 mm) wide
by 18” (45.72 mm) tall.
a. Once the Match begins, a Robot which is contacting the Expansion Zone may expand
vertically with no height limit. However, once fully outside of the Expansion Zone (i.e. no
longer contacting it), the Robot must return to a height limit of 18” (45.72 mm) tall.
b. Once the Match begins, Robots may expand, but no horizontal dimension can exceed 36”
(914.4 mm) at any point during the Match.
c. As a result of this rule, Robots may not contact High Flags.

[1378_Yung_Gravy]

How close it is the non expansion zone to the flag??? @GBHS VEX Member

[meng]

And btw, I wouldn’t recommend 1 motor for flywheel.

[GBHS_VEX_Member]

How close it is the non expansion zone to the flag??? @GBHS VEX Member

Not close enough.

No, seriously, go to page 13 of the field specs. The flags are literally 60 inches away from the expansion zone. There just isn’t any way.

[1378_Yung_Gravy]

thanks for the information

[nenik]

1:5 with 2 torque motor for the RD4B

2 motors for RD4B is overkill.
I have built an experimental full size (ITZ-style) RD4B robot powered by a single 100rpm V5 motor with 1:5 gearing. Works like a charm (I’ll try to post some videos later).