The snowblower is back !

Finally got the snowblower robot in a working state , it still needs some improvement but its coming along well !
stl file : comming soon souce files are a mess and I still need to clean it up and get the stls out .
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[@Acoustic_Theory]

I think the wobble may be because of mass imbalance of the auger - it doesn't complete a number of full 'turns', so the partial turn is resulting in offset mass on one side of the auger shaft.

[@Rebar77_real]

Definitely needs to crawl, like you mentioned. Fun project!

[@turboprint3d]

maybe some higher turn 775 motors and brush less motors with lower kv , lots of options the 40mph( approximate track speed with no load max power) top speed is not really functional on something this short , should make it slower
overall one way or another would make control alot smoother .

[@Acoustic_Theory]

A lot of the difficulty your snowblower design has had is because of having two stages on a common shaft with a side exit - an auger pushes the snow to the side, into a fan section that throws it into a side-offset discharge chute, but the auger doesn't really spin fast enough, the fan doesn't have enough speed to lift the snow. Consider a single-stage design with two auger sections that push snow to the center, then when the augers converge, that becomes the part that flings the snow upward. Also, I think your tracked carrier needs more mass - maybe heavier batteries - to assist with traction and help the whole thing be more stable, and it needs to be geared down more so it can be controlled. These are just my observations.

[@turboprint3d]

czcams.com/video/CShfzXvJoFU/video.html blower works fine the vibration is not much of an issue, however if i redesign ill move the shoot to the middle and that way i can balance the design easier . I like the single stage over a 2 stage just in the simplicity of design . I need to make the thing wider so it clears the snow in front of the tracks so they don't climb up. If I had fresh snow that's not heavy it blows great . I have a few ideas on a redesign but have yet to settle on how I want to do it . defiantly needs more of a skid to push the weight down onto the blower maybe a wheely bar on the back attached to the actuator to not allow it to flip up. the other idea i had was to make 2 frames 4 sets of tracks and have a pivot between the 2 with an actuator for articulated steering . the much larger footprint would be better for this sort of work . I started with the blower on a bot frame i made years ago , now im finally getting to the new frame design . really the focus of this is more of less how well the frame works with the blower , witch was not as good as i wanted . now that I have a more preferred platform I plan to work with that in mind moving foreword .