Robot Stats

Team name: Team Vertex

Robot name : Vertical Limits

Team location :Kilkivan QLD

Robot weight(Class):Feather weight

Type of Robot: .Spinner-- conveyor -Wedge

Drive system :4 wheel drive twodrill motors, friction to upper set of wheels

Type/size of wheels : 130 mm white Plastic

Wheapon/s drive system: 300 psi compresor motor through 3to 1 belt reduction to aprox 3kg fly wheel

Speed/motor control: IBC

Power: 2x2.3 amp Sla's

Armour:3mm aluminium and 1.5 mm stainless steel

Length Width Height : aprox 450 mm x 380mm x 300 mm

Type of radio controler: 4 chanel Skyport

Radio frequancy:36..mgz

General coments : invertable wedge with aprox 5000 rpm fly wheel

Unuasual charatistics : This robot does a gyro dance when turning at speed and can be slow rolled over on to its other wheels by a skilled driver with practice. The wedge also has conveyor wheels to assist other robots to slide all the way up the wedge and into the fly wheel .

No, of Fights:

Wins :

Losses:

Link to picture in photo albulm:

Last edited by Totaly_Recycled on Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:05 pm; edited 2 times in total

After a couple of months off from robots i finaly have got around to fixing (hopefuly)the drive problem in this robot.
I have replaced the two bottom pram type wheels with bunings red wheels it sems to be going ok and drives a lot better now as the old wheels used to get flat spots from siting on the floor .I drove it around for about 10 minutes this morning so the next battle will test it out .

The red whels seem to be holding on ok ive given the bot a few runs this morning to cycle the Batteries as it hasnt been used for a while and the sla's get a bit lazy dureing storage .

Andrew, I would like to know what would happen if VL hit a shovel face. Do you think that VL would cut or dent the spring steel of a shovel? Would you be prepared to test this?
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Bring the shovel im prepared to test it

I decided to pul the covers of VL and give it a bit of a service the bateries also have never been removed since i built it .I decided to put in a 7 amp battery to give it a bit more run time and have removed the 2.3 sla s. I also managed to push the drives foward a little more to gain a bit more balance as the 7 amp doesnt go back as far as the other batery did .I still havnt put the teeth back on but that shouldnt be a major job .So far its looking good, I even panel beated the side covers which were geting a few dents in them .Hopefully will give it a test drive tommorow and see if all the work has made any differance .

Well its al back together still drives well the wheapon seems to come up to speed a little faster as well .Ive put a removable mod on the front of the robot which should help when fighting some robots most of the time it wont be fitted it does stop the wheaopn from hittijng the floor though

ive finished the mods on this robot just need to trim the top cover for the wheels to fit and its finished ready for robowars

VL is ready to go to robowars and final weigh in is 13.550 kgs

VL is ready for Brisbane just needs a couple of screws replaced or repositioned i have shifted the link to the inside of the robot so hopefully no more embaresing loses from the plug being pulled by the opponent..

Vl has the new belt that Steve gave us fitted properly now, i had to shift the motor mounting plate back 20 mm. Ive refited its own radio again as well.

Vl has has a bit of maintainance this week and also lost a little weight form changeing the 75mm steel pully down to a 60mm ali pully .and is sporting a new wheapon motor to boot .

What is the new weapon motor?
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

a new compressor to go with the old one i hear
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