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Andrew W
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 220
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Update
Armour: Changed my ideas about the armour, going to have 6mm ali with chopping board on the outside, this is for the sides of the bot. The front is going to have 3mm ali with chopping board and the back is going to be 10mm ali with chopping board.
Batteries: Decided the 2nd hand 3.4A Panasonic SLA are too heavy (2.5Kg for 2) and I now only have 1 set of 2, as the other set didn't have much capacity in them.
Still undecided on what to use, I could use the 2.2A DOSS SLA from Radio Parts, although I would need to buy 4 of them and would need another charger as well , so that idea pretty much throws that idea out the window.
I was thinking of using 17 or 18 of the N3000CR batteries, they would be around 1.5kg and I would still need to solder another 7 or 8 onto the stick of 10 that are already joined.
I was think of Lipos but I would need a pack of 6 and most places only seem to sell packs of 3, is it ok to join 2 packs together ?
Andrew
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Thu May 24, 2007 9:18 pm |
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Andrew W
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 220
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Went to Battleshed with an unfinished robot. Finally got it finished in the pits, thanks to Neweyn, Matt and Gary, who helped me finish it off.
The 1st two heats I sat out as I hadn't finished the robot .
The 1st fight was against Hammerhead where the belts came off my wheels as the motors were only tied down with cable ties (Didn't get a chance to buy longer hose clamps).
The 2nd fight was against Black and White and the same thing happened again.
The 3rd fight was against Bane 1 and this time the belts stayed on, after Gary lent me his hot melt gun. This fight ended when I lost control of the robot, I found out that the main power lead between my 2 12V SLAs had broken . (shouldn't have used a single piece of 12G cable soldered onto the top of the tabs)
My last fight was against Bender, I was actually able to drive it this time but alas Bender was ripping through my 6mm Aluminium armour and one of the hits got my baseplate and high-sided me, oh well.
I learnt alot from Sydney and that having a working robot a couple of weeks before an event is a good idea, it allows for driving practice and fault finding/repair.
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:49 pm |
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