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Why did your robot lose
Wires coming off
26%
 26%  [ 5 ]
Chains/Belts Falling off
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Set Screws/Shaft Couplings coming loose
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Radio Interference or lack of range
15%
 15%  [ 3 ]
Insufficient battery power or not charged properly
10%
 10%  [ 2 ]
Speed controller overload
10%
 10%  [ 2 ]
Motor / Battery failure
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Motors or other component mountings coming loose
5%
 5%  [ 1 ]
Insufficient ground clearance or Traction
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Not enough drive or Weapon power
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Other (detail in message)
15%
 15%  [ 3 ]
Not invertible
15%
 15%  [ 3 ]
Total Votes : 19

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Timothy Forde
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Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 247
Location: Vic ,Belgrave South


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I'll list all the things that have stopped me or been a problem
(robowars)
Radio aerial being snapped
Lake of experience driving (your first drive being your first fight is not a good idea)
Again testing I had no idea what my batteries could do or the ibc take or the motors take hmmm that’s everything. The only thing I was confident about was armor
(Annihilator)
Wire coming off (I meant to tape them but find of ran out of time… I did every fight after it though lol)
Radio problems
Flipped… oh and flipped again. Next time I'll need time to test it is invertible…. like it's meant to be LOL
Also motors taking 20 min to change meant I could not fix the wheels when the centre of those red wheels shredded so lost a lot of control and power

All those things are fixed now though. Things going wrong is the best way to find faults and fix them
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Post Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:56 pm 
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prong
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I was expecting to have something to post in here but after Robort won all its battles what can i say!

Though in the melee one of our wheel washers got pulled off, along with the wheel, over the reverse threaded motor bolt Shocked I do not know how that much force was put on the wheel to expand the washer that much without breaking the wheel or gearbox!

Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:38 am 
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Glen
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oh yeah, another one i had was the radio getting crud reception when the robot was upside down.
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Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:40 am 
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3Faze



Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Lincolnshire, UK


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*Takes a breath*

Electrical gremlins
Wheels falling off
No 2-stroke oil in the engine
Judge's muppetry Very Happy
Not enough grip
It was ****
Couldn't get it working in time
Banned
Banned
Couldn't get it working in time
Banned again
Weapon Banned
Couldn't tell which way round it was without the weapon on Embarassed
Driver error (guess who? Rolling Eyes)
I drawing pinned the tyres on, cause I was in a rush
Damn Pit
Damn Pit and Driver error (oh yeah, the pit's open isn't it)
Couldn't get it working in time
Forgot to enter Crying or Very sad
Clutch unlocking on the drill

and not forgetting the greatest of all

Freak act of it's never done that before Rolling Eyes

And that's just a few....

Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:14 am 
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Valen
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Joined: 07 Jul 2004
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Location: Sydney


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should add battery clip falling off to ours
Plan-B vs basilisk round 1
the impact of nicks spinner took a fair chunk out of the top of plan-b but eh didnt really affect anything much, problem was the impact pulled a 9v battery clip off one of the batteries powering our IBC

kinda good and bad that we were disabled that fast
the results wouldnt have been pretty lol
especially without full speed drive and our sucker him into hitting the wall tactic unable to be played

Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:37 pm 
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3Faze



Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Lincolnshire, UK


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Oh, and I still can't make the freakin thing self-right Sad

Post Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:50 am 
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andrew



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what motor do u use for teh spinner
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Post Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:28 am 
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Nick
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quote:
especially without full speed drive and our sucker him into hitting the wall tactic unable to be played


Walls? I don't slow down for no stinkin walls! Laughing

My tactic was to drive carefully and stay out in the centre

Apart from not quite self righting, the only real failure so far was been yet another XU1 gearbox failure.
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Post Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:13 am 
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3Faze



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quote:
Originally posted by andrew:
what motor do u use for teh spinner


EV Warrior.... tuned to go like **** off a stick CCW Very Happy

Post Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:39 am 
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