Difference between revisions of "FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-09-21"

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Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Attendees
Monday 21-September-2015	6:00-8:00pm	TCHS Brandywine	Josh, Akhila, Justin, Braden, Trevor, Amal, Wade, Daniel, Jacob, Myles

Objectives / Systems

Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans

Tetrix Treads measured dimensions

Ordered Tetrix Treads (2 kits plus accessories) have arrived.

'Intake

Braden, Myles, Amal, Wade,and Trevor were helping out with the intake
We measured the length and width of our mini chasis.We also used Polycarbon glass as well.

Tasks	Reflections
Drive Chain Sklz	John worked with Gary and Daniel to attempt to put together the tank treads. Puttering the rubber doohickeys into the tread whosiwhatsits. This took 5ever and gary reported that His arem achmed AFTER HE PUT ALL THE RUBBER THINGAMADOOHICKEYS IN THE PLACE.
we had made the tracks and have came up with an early idea for our scoring system.	Bullet point for each reflection we were pretty productive today and got work done.

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 * Tread thickness = 0.175"; Tread width = 1.560"
 * Idler / Tread effective diameter = 2.910"
-* Pitch (19 1/16" for 50 links) = 0.381" (probably 0.375" nominal, but there is some slop)
+* Pitch (19 1/16" for 50 links) = 0.381" (0.384" measured in CAD model)
+* Drive sprocket had 20 teeth - pitch diameter = 2.445"
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