For Endeavour we used 15mm HDPE for everything, bulkheads and all.
Seemed to stand up very well against spinners
For Endeavour we used 15mm HDPE for everything, bulkheads and all.
Seemed to stand up very well against spinners
Thanks for feedback. I will certainly go for HDPE, and will make it around 15mm, perhaps a little bit thicker in places. I'd say I can do four motors at a stretch, bearing in mind I'll need to gear all of them, mount them and buy the extra wheels, but that's not too much expense. I'm think I'm right in saying I still only the two speed controllers.
Speaking of which, I've been looking at a couple more guides but without knowing the amperage needed I can't figure out which battery or esc I need.To find out the c rating needed I need to know the capacity, and for the capacity I need to know the amperage.
You seem very sure with the DX5e, so I will probably go with that.
Any more recommendations or views would be helpful
with the lipos you times the amps by the c rating to get the current eg a 2200mah with a 30c you would do 2.2X30 to get 60a
are you going to go for drill motors or something else
Yes I will use drill motors
ok well im using a turnigy nano tech 4s 2.2a 35c cont 70c burst so about 157a peak and thats running the 4 drills in night fury the motors get quite warm and the battery only gets warm if im doing alot of pushing for the full 3 min.
Last edited by plargen; 17th April 2013 at 15:34.
Without experience, and despite my best efforts to find out myself, I have to ask what sort of peak can I get away with?
well my estimates were that my drills pulled 25-30a peak so about 120a max for 4 motors so i looked for something with a higher burst current and the turnigy seemed to give a good burst amp (157a) and there very small and i can do 2 fights on 1 battery
what voltage are you going to use
these are the 1s im using
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Turnigy-Na...item20d1109686
Last edited by plargen; 19th April 2013 at 20:28.
Thanks. Just wanted to know what to look for, but I'll probably end up going for anything that's tried and tested anyway.
Last edited by MudnuK; 17th April 2013 at 20:55.
Sorry Plargen, I didn't see this. I'll probably use 12v drill motors from B&Q or Argos, but I might go with two wheel drive so the wedge works inverted, for which I'll need more powerful motors (maybe Gimsons)
Does it make sense to make a robot designed for a weapon, and upgrade it by putting the weapon in later (which is the preferred plan), or by making a simple starter bot and make a whole new bot with a weapon?
gimsons are drill motors
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