I also fixed the soft under belly its now sporting a stainles steel under body that will be a tight fit against the hard shell ..now just to seal those wheel slots with some asbestos cloth and im in business (well might have to settls for fiberglass cloth or i will get hijacked lol .)

Arrh welcome to da Spectrum club . Just watch the battery, cos its runs out quick.
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There is a mod you can do to the spectrum to replace the standard linear regulator with a switchmnode that doubles the efficiency and hence the battery life. google fr spektrum switchmode regulator mod and you should find it.

Or if you dont want to void your warranty, just make up a better pack for it.

I replaced my 7C Radios 600mah NicD pack with a pack I made from 2500mah Jaycar NiMh cells about 6 weeks ago and I havent had to charge it once since. Used to require charging about once a week if I was simulatoring and Helicopter flying.. It has about 3-5 the duration now..

Reccomended if you want some more time between charges..
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mmm should be ok if i only use it for 3 mts at a time sounds like they are power hungry all my old radios go for about 2 years on a set of ordinary alkalines .

Offset drove well the only problem was a servo lead poping out of the reciever
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I just need to work out how to dampen down the steering if i cant work out the instructions i will just glue some paddle pop sticks to stop the sticks going too far sideways

Paddle pop sticks u crack me up . Adjust the rates Andrew, Aaron will show you. Or:

Push both menu buttons up - to access the menus

Press the left one up until you see d/r or duel-rates

Press the left one down until you see your steering channel

Press the right one up or down to adjust....bring it down from 100

K?
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I find Exponential better for steering and power control. It softens up the curve around the center point of the stick, but still leaves you with full power at full-travel.
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More than anything I just wanted Andrew to start playing with it, all robots will be different. I had Exponential @ 100% for steering and 80% for throttle and had the rates down to 50% for both, to get any sort of control @ Kilivan on Eleanor. Also when testing @ home I had no duel rates(100%), it was just the slippery floor which I changed the duel rates for. And it made it fine to drive, rather than spin wheels getting nowhere.

Does this help Andrew?
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thanks cant see the silly little numbers might get the kids to play with it if i can get their attention long enough

Found my glasses and Trent talked me through getting into the menue thing ive now set up the exp on the steering rates at 75 percent i can now drive around at full throtle quite controlably with out going into a full body spin .

I see what you,s meen about the transmiter batery on the spectrums, it started beeping at me today and ive been very carefull only to have it on when im actualy useing it and not leave it on all day like the old one.

I weighed it today and since putting on the stainles steel base and adding a couple more bits of steel today it was 13.610 kgs . I have taken out four circles of 3mm ali from the base plate about 30mm dia but had to wire in the leds and a plug i used thin wireing but had to use silastic to hold the wireing in place on the steel i will have to take it down tommorow for a re weigh. hopefully its under i have room to remove two more circles if i have to with out weakening the structure of my base .

Aaron and i had a good bash around today to find any weakneses in our bots.

His needs a few tweaks and adjustments his motors, were geting too hot so i think he is changeing them out .He riped the center out of a Squishy wheel so we had to mod those as well. Ive put some new red leds Aaron gave me in offset. They look pretty good where ive placed them the ones i had were so dim you couldnt even see them .

So far its driveing well and im geting good milage out of the 3600 pack Aaron made up.
This should be a reliable tough little robot and is fun to drive its a litte wierd driveing upside down but is still controlable and sometimes gets a nice rocking spin up when in a full body spin.

here are a couple of pics of the finished bot .

rmation looking for: -

Team name :Vertex

Robot Name :Offset

Robot Pic :http://www.robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=1363

http://www.robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=1362

Driver's Name & experience Andrew Aidulis Experianced Driver

Builders Name & experience : II have Built and helped Build aprox 12 robot s

Radio type & Freq :Spectrum

Frame type :Steel and ali

Armor type : Hardened Steel

Weapon : Pushing - raming spikes

Weapon drive type :none


Drive train : Two wheel drive sticky blue wheels with moded Dick Smith drills running HTI motors at 12 volts.

Controller : IBC

Batteries : 3600 sanyos at 12 volts

Achievements: Debute

Extra notes. This is a strongly built little robot it is well balanced and is reasonably easy to control . It has medium speed and lots of pushing power.

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Very cool! If you could have put a tail on it it would look identical to a sting ray. !
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If you could have put a tail on it it would look identical to a sting ray.

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