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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: Urjak on June 29, 2012, 07:53:22 PM
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It always sucks when your wedges have AGOD, and I notice a lot of people here who are having it happen to them a lot. On one of my bots, I noticed that when you remove/add motors, the wedges often realign.
It takes a bit of experimenting to get it right, but it seems like motors added after or before the metal hinge wedges are attached affect AGOD in different ways. It has worked on every one of my bots so far without fail.
I just learned this a short while ago, though it could already be known by other builders. I thought I might as well share it anyway.
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I have always done wedges very last in DSL, anything with a free moving axle attached after seems to increase AGOD likeliness
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Pretty sure most components with two moving parts (spin motors, axles, pistons, bursts) affect AGOD.
Not sure about servos.
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I've noticed the same thing with skirts.
On my most recent bot, the wedges were AGODing severely no matter what I did. Then I took off a 120cm skirt I was using for a srimech, and poof! No AGOD. Put it back on, AGOD comes back. I took it off and replaced it with a 120cm extender and then a 120cm DSL bar, and no AGOD there either.
I tried reattaching the skirt in different ways and different rotations, and every time the bot had a skirt somewhere on it, it got AGOD. Whenever it didn't have a skirt, it didn't have AGOD either.
Then I rebuilt it from the ground up (for reasons that had nothing to do with AGOD) and I was able to use the skirt srimech with no AGOD.
It would seem that certain components are "AGOD triggers", but that they don't always trigger AGOD on every bot. So far we have motors and skirts as possible AGOD triggers.