Robot Stats

Robot name : Devastator

Location: Nundah QLD

Robot weight: Feather 13.6 kg

Type of Robot:. Flipper - full pressure

Drive system :2 x 36mm Bane Bot motors

Type/size of wheels: 3 inch Colson

Weapon/s: Big Flipper

Speed/motor control: Bane Bot controllers

Power: 2000mAh 11.1V LiPol

Armour: 5mm Ali

Length Width Height: 450mm, 550mm, ?mm

Type of radio controler: Futaba 9CAP

Radio frequancy: 75 point something MHz

General coments : Was Marauder

Unuasual charatistics: No polycarb

gosh i love that robot

I am fascinated your using lipo's and how the banebots controllers will perform in a featherweight, ive only seen them used successfully in hobbyweights and even then they reached current limiting but i think that was with bots with 4 drill/wheel drive and 12 volts or something

Just promise me u wont be remaking it entirely out of bunnings polycarb or nothing
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Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics

I want to put a layer of 3mm black polycarb and some neons, but unfortuantly my brother now owns it so he is upgrading it, not me.

How are you going to power the valve? It will need to be overvolted to 150% to fire at full pressure.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

As in Hellcat a 9V battery will be wired in series with the valve solenoid to drive it at 20.1V.

For a Bukert valve FP 20V is cutting it close.

It has a 12 v coil.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

I hadn't looked at the coil yet. A couple of little AA cells then.
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Get Some!!!

Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.

20 v sounds about right to me. It fires well when the batteries are fully charged. It can fail to fire when the batteries start to get down to about 16 v.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Some new toys arrived today:


The new 36mm 25:1 gearboxes with RS-545 motors and BB-12-45 speed controllers arrived from Bane Bots as well as some 3" colsons (2 for Devastator and 2 for Hellcat).


I have also deceided to replace the pneumatic lines and valves to overcome un-educated safety inspectors.

This sort of setup has been deemed an overkill here in Queensland due to the fact that the supply bottle has its own on/off valve and the screw fitting on top of the bottle acts as the vent valve. That can be a little hard to see for unexperienced people but the new setup should be easy to follow.
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Get Some!!!

Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.

We tested the pneumatics today just for the fun of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWK9a58bcQ

Maybe we should have emptied the vacume cleaner first.
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Get Some!!!

Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.

LOL Looks like it tore it open from the flipper force itself! Nice work.
Heh did you get a lot of curious/worried faces from those people walking and riding past?
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Good ole Toombul Westfield car park To think that robot combat in Aus all started in that carpark Still amazed how high that palet when stacking on it's end
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Cool
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i declare that weapon AWESOME
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