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Daniel Marshall
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Vic Backyard Event

Gday all,
The arena is ready for a backyard event, all the barriers are in place and the polly-carb is fixed. I'll post some pix on the public photo's tonight.
I was going to suggest Sunday the 26th Oct. That gives us 2 1/2 weeks, is that enough time.
BBQ as well, my shout.
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Mat and I will be there, If I get really motivated my new toy might be close to ready by then!

Post Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:27 pm 
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I should be there ill check with kirsten see if she wishes to come.
Unfortunately i wont have time to do much so ill probably have rhino as it was at the end of battleshed or zebra with a polycarb wedge due to uni let alone my new design.

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Damien (not Damian)



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If only I could get the damn speed controller fixed (and I gave the microswitches to my cousin) Razz . If I can get the Scorpion fixed and the weapon mount going, then maybe I might come. But that's a BIG maybe.
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Andrew W



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I should be there with a robot. Those DSE drills seem to be quite easy to take apart and get the clutch off.

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Damien,

You should try to come along anyways, if you can't get it going I'm sure we will have some time to get things moving for you.

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I agree, a broken robot never stoped anyone from competing.

I have heaps of micro switches here. you can have as much as you like.
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Damien (not Damian)



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So fixing the blown side of the speed controller is out of the question then? I'll try to get it going first, but until then, one or two microswitches would probably do.
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do you know why the scorpion blew a side? if not someone there might be able to hunt down the problem so it can be avoided in the future.

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The repair guy said it was either a miscalibration (I don't know how I could've screwed that up) or the FETs on one side shorted, so they have to be replaced. But that's just a guess.
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Post Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:55 am 
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Are many people coming to this?
Kirsten is not unfortunately.

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Rob is probably in Canberra.

Matt and I are on track to be there with Ballistic and Pyrobot.

An address would be helpful. If someone could PM
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Post Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:40 am 
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also what time we thinking of starting?
BTW apparently kirsten is coming now

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Gary,

Can you please bring your scales with you, RAW needs weighing.

Mat and I are bringing 6x7 and b&w to compete, RAW is comming down for some testing. (He has no armnour at this stage)

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I was talking to daniel the other night, he still likes the idea of a round robin, I was just wondering what people think of the idea of running the Kerison scoring system they talk about in the second page of the idea's fest thread?

Or if someone else has a suggestion to stop multiple people ending up on the same score at the end of the day? My thoughts are that if we choose to use the same system as last time, we just finish the day without declaring a winner of the day.

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