I voted for 2.4Ghz, granted it may be a wee while before I'm building one and I wouldn't have minded using some of my old 40meg gear but I really don't want to see machines of this size running off 27Mhz.
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I voted for 2.4Ghz, granted it may be a wee while before I'm building one and I wouldn't have minded using some of my old 40meg gear but I really don't want to see machines of this size running off 27Mhz.
well I guess we could see how it goes, then maybe drop AM first if theres problems.
If sombody built a walker there could be a heavy spinning bar or disk in the arena, even with the wheeled spinners it wouldnt be nice if one of them picked up a signal when sombody had there hand in the arena.
Arenas going to be steel framed and steel floored.
Did anyone have any probs usin 40meg at robochallenge?
Totally agree with this. However when there is a hand in the arena all robots should be in failsafe mode so that random signals picked up don't have any effect. In the case of dis-arming, make sure everyone turns off their transmitters after the fight but before the door is opened; for arming up, once a robot has been activated and driven to the other side of the arena, get the driver to switch off their transmitter (thereby being in failsafe mode) until the doors are closed and just turn Tx's on before the fight begins.Quote:
even with the wheeled spinners it wouldnt be nice if one of them picked up a signal when sombody had there hand in the arena.
Drumroll's ran two Robo Challenge events on the steel floor/steel frame combo now and had no interference problems. Carcinus had interference problems at the tags but that was because I was using a Futaba Tx with a 'compatible' Cirrus brand Rx, external aerial taped to the body and horrible internal wiring that had wires crossing over sources of electrical noise (really quite shameful!)
It depends how many robots are in the arena doesn't it? I've heard talk of 40mhz machine struggling to be heard as it were, in some of the big featherweight melees at RR events. Also, it's a much smaller arena, completely made of steel, I don't know if that increases the farrady effect or not? I guess it'll be a case of trial and error to see what works. I know that going over to 2gig was the best decision I ever made, and with them being so cheap now, I'd vote to use them.
Cool, Shouldnt be any major problems in this arena then. We will just have to do some testing once the arenas done.
Its looking like theres going to be a few spinners, i know jacks been looking at brushless motors and speedos today. Should be some good fights with a few spinners in the arena.
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the lipo im using:
http://www.micronradiocontrol.co.uk/lipo_ego.html
second from bottem
Cool, That poll I put up is at 50/50.
Should I do more polls for other things we discuss?
Yes.
you'll have to do a poll asking if you should do more polls- that will clear things up