The team is using the swish herobot and the intake gears aren’t connecting to spin. They tried adding a rubber band and it works as intake but then when they lower the catapult the gears grind.
This is an issue with using hybrid gears. Try encouraging your team to explore ways they can powr the intake without using hybrid gears. bevel gears or crown gears!
Hint for one idea
Try mounting the motor paralell to the intake roller (combine roller)
Good luck!
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There is a gear pack that does a better job of holding the gears together.
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Thank you, @BananaPi - but honestly my knowledge is so little I don’t know what “hybrid, bevel gears, or crown gears” are, nor did I understand what you meant in your hint. Someone pointed me to look at Fling, so I built a model of that intake to show my team. I think I understand now what you meant by vertical, maybe. Mom coach here, learning a lot!
Thank you @Foster- I think we have those (we have a used kit), so I’ll pull them out and see if the team can figure out how to leverage those items.
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I used a sprocket chain ratio from a motor to the intake a mid sized sprocket to small sized hope this helps
It seems that the gears you are using are too close, so one of them is pushing the other, which may result in a twisted axle. Move the gears for the intake back a little and they MIGHT not grind in theory.
Just put the motor on the intake. easy.
@Journeyshomeschool if you are still looking for a solution, I believe I see it. It isn’t about the gears, it is about the beams. The instructions show the 1x beam in the middle holes of the 2x beam. You have the 1x beam in the top holes of the 2x beam. See the screenshot.
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Sure, hang a heavy motor out on the end of a long arm, what could go wrong with that?
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make the intake higher. this solves that problem.
Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like to have the minimum post size on the VEX forum set to 200 characters. This would help the roboteers that just left a Discord tab to actually write a coherent post vs the 7 and 8 word posts that I see here all the time. And since I’m asking, could you install the Auto-capitals after punctuation plug in please? It’s the one that makes first character in a post a capital letter, and the first letter after a period or question mark also a capital letter. I know that lots of roboteers suffer from Controller Shift Key Carpal Syndrome where the little fingers, due to hours and hours of controller usage are now unable to move to the shift keys. Thanks Santa!
Sorry @gforce2940 I needed to get that out of the way first, thanks for waiting.
I’m going to assume that you know that most of the VIQ roboteers are new at robotics. And that most of them are building the “Hero bot” as a starting point. So terse comments like:
Just put the motor on the intake
Are not really helpful. Where, How, and Why are all instant questions. Like It’s a 1x beam, how do you keep it from twisting?
Easy.
This is just twisting the knife.
make the intake higher
Higher? What does higher mean? It’s already got to go over the ball, higher means miss the ball? Or do you mean make the pivot point on the robot higher? But won’t that mean extra effort to now get the arm to go over the ball?
So many new questions. But the icing on the cake is:
this solves that problem.
I had an instant flashback to my Differential Equations class, where the professor would write some long gobbledygook on the board, and go “clearly the solution is this” and write 4 symbols. You might as well have written “Elementary my Dear Journey” (the OP).
Oh, I’m getting the sign from Santa that I’m about to cross over to the naughty list. So try to make longer posts to get information across. You have 68 words in your last 9 posts, my Christmas gift request to Santa had almost twice that. (I’ll guess it was crystal clear to you and others what I was trying to say.) Please try to clearly explain or use a picture to be helpful. Remember right after Thanksgiving are the big tournaments, so stressing roboteers out by going “Easy” isn’t really helping them.
Happy Holiday!!
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