i know the season is over now but i wana say that the more pressure you have pushing two gears together (PTO) the lesss force will be "conducted" through the two motors, same goes for your motorsharing video :)
@flyingcheese22608a The pneumatic system draws a crap ton of power, since the air compression system is not efficient. One of our school teams tried utilizing full pneumatic systems, but the battery (2nd gen) drained within three driving attempts
its a cool yet challenging concept. one of my sister teams actually tried a 4 motor drive with pto motor share for intake and elevator. but they didnt have enough time before states so they scrapped their design. u guys have potential to do it though! keep it up!
what if you try on your rubber band wall on the intake try off brand rubber bands that are long but grippy this might help because you said the issue was collecting a lot of cubes at once and i think if the rubber bands are longer but grippy, the cubes can be pushed further back to allow purples to go over the greens. the "mechanical bulls" youtube channel shows a cluster collect video how they have no back wall just rubber bands and the green cube can sit there as the purples go over the green cube. if your issue is collecting a lot at once, this might help.
Weird because my robot intake is a two motor 3:1 ratio and it also can barely pick up supply zone and many other robots have same ration and can clear supply zome in 25 seconds.
although it looks identical and the spacing may be, the pieces are still different. there may be multiple causes of this: 1. bent axles 2. bent beams 3. broken pieces 4. friction in the PTO and chain towards intake
We are pretty sure they are identical. Bent axel and poor building quality will not give you a decent intake speed reading, which is not our case. The PTO gear frictions is around 5% speed reduction, which is also acceptable. The intake is fast when free spin but speed will drip dramatically while handling multiple cubes, we are not able to explain why.
@@flyingcheese22608aI don’t think so. Because that was one thing that was a downside of the PTO the battery drains like wild. However, it does slow down a smidge while driving but it’s way less insignificant than the drop on your bot. But that’s just our expierience.
Full Park is still possible without 4m, we currently have a desgin that has like these pneumatic arms that grab onto the low bar and just like climb, it's pretty difficult but should be possible for you to do.@@flyingcheese22608a
I know I'm just saying from my experience it is more sturdy to just use chain going the same direction as the PTO shafts because changing the direction from my expierience looses torque. Great bot though!@@flyingcheese22608a
Agree! Through the whole season, we could never build a solid chain lift, but we think we built pretty good linear lift, that's why we were trying to stick to it.
don't bully me in state pls! my robot so bad! my teacher not let me go to nw comp! You guys are like so geniuses!!!!!! Also, good luck I will see you at states!!!
@@flyingcheese22608a thanks for the isight, i still can only run like a 7 1/2 inch wall. Anyways, I think your idea of a 4 motor drivetrain is really unique, and is a new approach to using pto.
@@flyingcheese22608a hmm ok, is it slipping for the intake at all. Also the 5% reduction in speed is making a difference, and it can't handle multiple cubes very well
