• Eruption


      Statistics
      � Weight: 100kg
      � Height: 40cm
      � Length: 80cm
      � Width: 80cm
      � Speed: 12mph
      � Year built: 2011
      � Status: Active
      � Weight class: Heavyweight
      � Location: Lymm, Warrington, England


      Armour
      Shell made up of a mixture of 3.2mm & 4mm hardox. Also has HDPE top panels to give extra protection against hammers and axes.
      Power
      2 x Bosch motors running on 750 watts.
      Weapons
      Full-pressure CO2 powered flipper.
      Strengths
      Is very small, compact, fast and armed with a very potent weapon.
      Weaknesses
      Has a limited CO2 supply for the weapon.
      Team Invade
      Michael Oates and Adrian Oates
      Information
      Eruption is a heavyweight built by Team Invade, it was built as a heavyweight replica of their previous successful featherweight Explosion. Eruption has a very powerful flipper which can easily flip another robot out the arena, it has a very good success rate too. Winning the Robot Wars championships at Newport 2013 and also becoming the 2nd heavyweight in history to retain its title in the UK Championships twice in a row in 2014.

      Achievements
      • Robots: Extreme Wars Live! - Winner of Best Promising Newcomer Award
      • Robots Live! - Burgess-hill 2012 Winner
      • Fighting Robots - Tag Team Champions 2012 with Toon Raider
      • Robots: Extreme Wars Live! - Winter Tour 2012 Runner-up
      • Fighting Robots - Winner of Best Promising Newcomer Award 2012
      • Robot Wars - Portsmouth 2013 Champion
      • Robot Wars - Colchester 2013 Finalist
      • Robots Live! - Burgess-hill 2013 Runner-up
      • Robot Wars - Guildford 2013 Runner-up
      • Robot Wars Champion 2013 (Newport)
      • Fighting Robots UK Champion 2013
      • Fighting Robots UK Champion 2014
      * Fighting Robots UK Championship 2015 Runner-up
      * Robot Wars - Manchester 2016 Champion
    • Forum Posts

      Ocracoke

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      Jibril

      I am so done with Roboclaws. The 30A replacement just isn't playing ball at all, claiming motor 2 (the left one as you look at it

      Ocracoke 12th April 2024, 15:32 Go to last post
      Ocracoke

      Team Kaizen Build Diary

      Jibril
      I had originally planned to retire this robot owing to the fact that I wanted to get Kaizen 2.0 built but a minor change in circumstances

      Ocracoke 7th April 2024, 18:14 Go to last post