How could I Improve pt 2

4wd should be a good compromise

revised stats:

Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control

OOPS! made a mistake


Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 100X65X25
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control


Seeing as Robo-Platypus was such a success here€™s....


Robo-Aardvark
Name: Robo-Aardvark
Shape: A box with sloped sides (that does not include the front and back)
Colour: Light blue with the picture of an aardvark on the top
Speed: 10MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Motors: 2 Team Wyachi TWM3s @ 36V
Power: 7 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 wheels with a vulkalon coating
Ground Clearance: 4MM
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 90X55X45
Weaponry: 1) A Rear hinged flipper powered by 2 80X140 pneumatic rams running of a 3KG tank
2) A 20KG vertical fly wheel running at 2500RPM inside the flipper
powered by a perm 132, it has 16 2CM teeth
Srimech: the flipper
Strengths: Powerful weapons, Weapons synergy, Both weapons able to perform OOTA€™S
Weaknesses: Thin armour, Quite slow

Ben, is there much point in having 2 flipper systems on your machine?

I would scrap the forward hinged system and put the weight saved to better use (for example the 4mm titanium armour)

And 3mm ground clearance is too low

One flip and you will rip your own flipperarm off

Paul, I didnt want to say this in Kodys tournament but Nitrogen is not filled on weight but on pressure. So 2x 1,5kg Nitrogen makes no sense. Under FRA rules (and I hope you guys use those pneumatic rules because the RFL rules are lethal, Im amazed no one died there yet) the main bottles are only allowed a maximum of 1000psi.

CO2 is liquid inside the bottles, and therefore those are weighed since pressure is too variable.

I wasnt aware you weigh Nitrogen based on pressure. If so, its at 1000psi.

You still need to lower the pressure you can exert through, or elsequote:

One flip and you will rip your own flipperarm off

The force of flips are now 1300kg at the tips.

(Message edited by paulc on July 31, 2008)

I guess thats alright...

Leo, how many rams do some of the flippers nowadays (Iron Awe 5, Dantomkia, Bigger Brother) use? 1 or 2?

They use one.