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[TBC] Rumble in the Jungle - November 2017 - Heavyweight
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marto
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[TBC] Rumble in the Jungle - November 2017 - Heavyweight

Location: TBD
Weight Class: Heavyweight
Note: Must be off road capable



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Shocked standard HW weight?
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Must beat Andrew so i guess in as well Shocked
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No Marathon bots allowed! (unless you can lend me one as well Laughing )
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Lol if only!
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it's ok, they are over the weight limit.
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Hey Steve, is there any guide about how 'off road' the arena might be? Are we talking smoothish grass or rocks and ditches with water?
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This sounds awesome. I assume somewhere south east qld?

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I always wanted an excuse to use this type of 'wheel':



I don't know what those things are officially called, but they look like they could be made very tough.
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This will be easier than building a featherweight for me. Got a stack of old power chairs at work I can mod.

So off road arena and usual weapons etc
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i like where this is going
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Looks at pile of scrap metal in the garage

Soooo, what would be the cheapest/easiest drive motor/ESC option for a scrapheap heavyweight? Finding an old electric wheelchair or mobility scooter from somewhere? Asking for a friend ...

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Your friend should definitely look at wheelchair motors Wink. There are no really cheap options for heavyweight ESCs; even the cheapest ones are quite spendy.

Some of the possible ESCs are:

Vyper 120A single channel - probably better with 4WD and lower powered motors

RoboteQ 150 to 300A - they have some absolute beasts at beastly prices

IFI Victor 120A - similar to the Vyper but hard to find nowadays

IFI Victor BB 300A - very compact for the current rating and better bang for the buck compared to the RoboteQ controllers. These would be my personal pick for larger HW drive motors.

If your friend finds some four pole motors it might be possible to drive them with two TZ85a ESCs. As there are two separate circuits in a four pole motor, its fine to use a pair of ESCs on the one motor.
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The TZ85A has a place on the board for a fourth set of parallel MOSFETs. i might consider taking the unused FETs off the third channel of a BotBitz-configured TZ85A and putting them into the main outputs to make a TZ113A. Looks like a kind of painful SMD rework job though. You have to pull the two boards apart and then stick them back together afterwards.

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