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lol, i love how he is more interested in getting a good video than saving the robot :P

Now we shall have reached the 100th page

EDIT: oh for crying out loud

Not yet, the third post after this one will make the 100th page :P

I got a message back from Hurricane's owner:

The sabretooths failure probably was not caused by itself, but all i can speak from is a theory on what happened as im not exactly sure on what caused it.
http://www.robowars.org/forum/viewtopic ... &start=165\
^^there are some pictures here

I believe that It happened because i didnt tighten down the battery strap enough, so that the bead of weld inside the shell (for balancing) hit it, as you can see from the small chunk missing in the strap, which caused it to impale and short out one of the a123 cells in my battery pack.
The sabretooth does have one design fault and that is that the large heatsink which it is mounted to is not isolated from the circuitboard. This of course causes problems when you have it connected to the chassis while an a123 battery pack is shorted to the chassis. This probably blew something which set the whole board on fire, which created enough heat to even melt the reciever a few centimetres away from it.

I have replacement parts currently on the way so it should be up and running soon hopefully :)

feel free to copy this to the FRA forum to put minds at ease

Hope this answered your questions
Regards
Luke Sullivan
Team Shred

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmJXRlsksY

pretty cool design! do you guys think it would be possible to make a featherweight version? it would need some serious engineering to get right but it would be awsome :) possibly two linear actuators to pull the disk left/right to replace the servos on the small scale version? and would it qualify for the walker weight advantage? just wondering :talker:

jack

I'm not posting just to get the 100th page or anything, what a preposterous thought! :D

Have seen that video as well; gyroscopic procession is the technical name for it and it looks rather cool. But the last I heard, the RFL were re-writing the rules to remove GP robots from gaining a walker weight bonus, saying it's not a true walker.
I can sort of see their point about it not being a walker, but it's no wonder there are so few about. Every time someone comes up with something different the rules are subject to change to de-classify it unless it's a complete true walker. I thought the setup Anarchy used was very effective and was suitably walker-like to qualify for the full weight bonus but it just seems, from an observer's point of view, that because it wasn't slow and vulnerable like every other walker, that form of motive transmission was deemed to fall under the shuffling class (or whatever the correct name for it is) and no longer qualified for the full weight bonus allocation.

Ellis (Relentless) got the 100th page comment? you must pay. £25.40 please :)

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haha phonejacker :-)