I wanna do a T3 climb, but im doing it on 36:48. I am predicting the weight of the bot to be around 12-14 pounds and I wanna know if a 36:48 drive can handle the weight because of how fast it can be.
It depends on how many watts of motor power you are using for it, also the actual mechanism because some will have more friction so require more motor power than others
To be clear, how fast is the motor spinning? And this gearing decreases speed, right?
36:48, 450 rpm is the speed
I know that I’m kind of piggybacking off of this question, but could 77 watts at 300 rpm lift a robot of roughly 15 pounds? I haven’t really ever tried this, and I don’t want to rebuild our drivetrain for a pto with little previous information.
If you can give the distance the ladder is from the rotator of the mechanism, maybe someone can calculate it. (The further away it is, the more torque necessary. Closer, and less torque is necessary.)
I would assume so. Any pictures?
I don’t have any pictures of a cad, because the only computer I’m able to use for it has turned into a potato. Here is a picture of the robot, we would probably do something similar to 3004A for hang. This is the best picture that I have.
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I see… Uhh, are you gonna gear your wheels together?
It is probably possible for your bot, but you may need more space for the ‘arms’ that 3004A uses to pull themselves. An issue is that you probably will have to use a PTO if you want a T3 because 1, 2, or even 3 motors will defently not be enough.
Yes, we will gear our drivetrain together if we decide on a T3 for worlds, but we haven’t decided on it yet and that picture is an old one that is the most recent one I have.