hi all, my prototype build has been going great and coming along well. Until I weighed it tonight. Lol. it’s currently made from 12mm ply wood which will be replaced with HDPE when I make the final version. Anyway it’s coming in at just under 10 KG and still have about 5kg I need to put in and on which isn’t going to work out.

so I’m thinking of scrapping the brushed motor from the 18v circular saw and contactor setup I have for the weapon and going for the convenisonal brushless Motor and Esc instead.
this will be lighter and much smaller and would enable a pretty radiacal chassi redesign resulting in saving weight.

so the questions I have..
will this motor: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/propdriv...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

and this ESC: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-...ontroller.html

be a good matchup and wil setting up be a pain etc?


Then HDPE, iv looked into the grades most common etc and seems grade500 is the way forward but I wondered if you guys had noticed any change in characteristics with the different colours?? I know it might be a daft question but thought id ask as experience is always good to tap into.

Cheers
Matt