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Rotwang
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 1589
Location: Vic
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Very happy with Maestro’s performance, I was watching the crowd when he first came out and it was a real wow look at that type vibe.
Matt had never driven him before, no one had really, I had just powered him up on the bench and run him back and forth a foot or so in my chaotically crowded work space.
I had damager an IBC [or 2] free revving him with no wheels and no caps on the motors and perhaps a bit too much voltage or maybe glitching from the radio so I substituted Minimower’s radio in as well and left it there, so a different IBC got put in without the video card heat sink and fan I had intended running.
That resulted in the totally predictable blown fets situation just as Matt was getting the hang of the driving situation and working out his brake dancing routine.
For the future a fan cooled IBC as I had fitted to Rat and Arena sweeper might do the job but Jason has kindly agreed to make up an IBC with twice the fets mounted in a remote brick, that should fix it so he can go flat out, we were going to double up on the suppression diodes too just as insurance as he is the first bot to blow any of them.
Oh couple of other thoughts; when I swap Minimower radio in it was only for a test, I didn’t check the channels and they were naturally wrong so that made it that little bit harder to drive Sorry Matt.
And it would have been nice to fight King Pin or Loki but early days for the Lightweight class,
So next time Speed bump watch out, enjoy your time as Australian champ lightweight all 8 kg of you were out to get you.
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