Keep your weight low. This is a very big key for this year’s game because of the 30" goals. College teams already had experience with this and most likely learned a lot from it, you may want to look at their robots/talk to them about things they found when lifting to >30", and keeping their COG low and all that.
~Jordan
Or you have to use four 393’s to run it (1103).
i think his was on the boarder line for tripping 1.6:1 on 4" wheels
in one of the competitions, he had breaker issues because the mats had the anti static spray on it
and i didnt think he had the ability to push anybody because his robot is already 19 lbs!
btw a lot of teams in our region had 4 393’s on their drive with the same ratio as titan’s
but they were all a LOT lighter than his and therefore had more “oomph” to it
The 4 robots I’ve built weighed 12,9,15, and 18 pounds. It goes MUCH slower if you have more weight. Also, had a problem with the 9 pound robot always tipping.
Our Round-Up robot was about 11 pounds (± 1.5 lbs), and we had 2 3-wire motors and 2 393’s on 4" omnis, 2:1 for speed and had no problems with slipping/stalling/tripping breakers. We could intentionally trip the 393s’ heat thingies if we ran it into something and kept going, but that never happened in competition.
We had a fairly high CG when we raised the intake because our intake was pretty sturdy and lifted up ~32 inches. To keep up from falling over forwards when holding rings and accelerating backwards, we put in little bumpers on the front of the robot that hit the ground when the robot started to tip, pushing us back upright.
With vertical lifts instead of arms, it should be easier to keep the CG more central.