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BOE Board and LI-Po battery board

Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
edited 2014-01-25 18:10 in General Discussion
Hello!
I have here the #28986 board with the suggested batteries in it. It's also wearing the suggest spacers on it. It does fit perfectly under the BOE Board I am using at the moment.

However I am planning on assembling a BOE-Bot soon so I am wondering if the #28986 board is the one that the company suggests for powering a bot using that power source. However the video supplied with the page http://www.parallax.com/product/28986 shows the duo putting the widget under the bot's chassis.

And is there more then one battery board for using LI-Po batteries?

As it happens I've got one of them here, and I checked and it will just barely fit. But the servos may not allow it.

Does this one get placed under the BOE and then both get bolted to the top of the chassis?

Chassis shown here http://www.parallax.com/product/700-00022

So I'm I bit confused about all of that.

Oh and what does the tail ball use for mounting?

Comments

  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2014-01-24 21:36
    The video on the product page for item #28986 is incorrect. They are demonstrating the #28988 which is obviously much smaller. Maybe someone with a Boe-bot can measure and tell you if a 4" x 3" board will fit on the bottom side. The tail wheel ball is mounted with a cotter pin as the axle I think,
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-01-24 21:40
    There are two different Li-Ion boards. One fits under the BOE-Bot the one you mentioned does not.

    attachment.php?attachmentid=91016&d=1332737785

    I used the Li-Ion board with my PropBOE-Bot.
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    edited 2014-01-24 22:58
    RDL2004 wrote: »
    The video on the product page for item #28986 is incorrect. They are demonstrating the #28988 which is obviously much smaller. Maybe someone with a Boe-bot can measure and tell you if a 4" x 3" board will fit on the bottom side. The tail wheel ball is mounted with a cotter pin as the axle I think,

    Hello!
    Okay good then. That makes much better sense. It seems to me that the BOE Bot using this battery board, is using it as a base for its processor over the chassis.
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    edited 2014-01-24 23:02
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    There are two different Li-Ion boards. One fits under the BOE-Bot the one you mentioned does not.

    attachment.php?attachmentid=91016&d=1332737785

    I used the Li-Ion board with my PropBOE-Bot.

    Hello!
    Even better. Good example there.

    Say? Where are you located in the state? I've actually been there, twice.
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-01-25 12:17
    Buck Rogers wrote: »
    Say? Where are you located in the state? I've actually been there, twice.

    Southeast area of the state. We're just north of Pocatello and about an hours drive north of Utah. Pocatello and Chubbuck are located at the junction of I-15 and I-86.
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    edited 2014-01-25 18:10
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    Southeast area of the state. We're just north of Pocatello and about an hours drive north of Utah. Pocatello and Chubbuck are located at the junction of I-15 and I-86.

    Hello!
    That's what I thought. Right by the Mountain Home Airforce base. (It's a big one that is or was used to train fighter pilots for a certain family of birds.)

    We were traveling via the end that abuts the state of Washington.
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