So i was wondering how u could best anable a gear to climb on the ladder, my idea was to push the gear that powers the climb on to the gear of ur drivetrain but I don’t know how good it will work.
i’m not sure how teams do this either (i’ve seen it in videos but I don’t understand how it works). My personal theory on how you would make this is by swinging a free-spinning gear on a pneumatic lever. the other gears would be fixed in place so that when the movable gear it activated, it gets pushed in between the powered one on the drivetrain and the gear for the mechanism. again, though, I don’t really know if this would work, I’ve never attempted it.
They usually vary a LOT, but they all use a similar concept.
I believe the mechanism you’re talking about is a PTO. Here is a video on how to build them: How to build a PTO/Transmission (Tutorial Video)
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Yeah this was also kinda my idea thx
I wouldn’t recommend this type of PTO for this game. unless you are banding with 3-4 rubber bands upward, you probably would have gear skipping due to the sheer force needed to pull a robot upwards. Id recommend using a linear PTO seen below instead.
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I agree. As I said, the design will vary. I referenced the video because it shows and explains the concept well.
DO you mean a winch pulley system? A lot of teas last year used a winch pulley system with a PTO to climb.
Yes. Our team does that.
As you said, I would probably turn toward climbing Over Under bots for the PTO mechanism, But the winch will vary. Ive seen some ideas floating around of using elastics to pull the climb up, then the wind to pull down, or to just have a winch going both ways.
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