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Domestic 230v is brown/blue/earth colour
Industrial 24v is blue and white/blue
Automotive 12v is red/black
3 phase industrial is brown black grey in England, some places still use red blue yellow or black for all 3
I use red black because it's the same colour that comes with the lipo's etc and it keeps it all simple :)
It's a small black parallelogram wedge with red lights in the wheel at arches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellis
Well the way to make this robot reliable is to stop the overvolting. There is no loss of top speed by changing the motors to 18v and going 24:1, only a bit of explosiveness. Would be a shame to lose that, but you can push a robot with bosch 35s if you can get underneath, so the way the machine works would be the same.
And it would probably improve my driving, having everything a bit calmer.
That would cost something like 60 quid to do. Very little to pay to gain reliability.
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We're also overvolting the lifter motor. Recently it smells of overworked motor even if you run it literally for a second. We don't know the history of it (found by some bins), so for all we know it has always been close to going home.
Looking at this as a replacement motor: http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/Mjk0OTg2OT ... 5G_AS.html
The can looks to be almost identical to the one in the drill. We'd lose some power in the weapon, but it has buckets of it, so it shouldn't be a problem. And for that money it's worth getting one to find out.
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Other than those potential upgrades (downgrades?) we updated the wiring last night. Thinking about putting some bike tyre on the blue wheels as with just 3mm of clearance I'm worried about bottoming out at the champs.
Sorry, the link never appeared last time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3gncrBfkYQuote:
Originally Posted by Danjr1
It certainly doesn't seem to be lacking any power. Are you running 18v motors on 6s? ^
We bit the bullet and got what we need from Gimson to make this change. We also ordered what we think should be a replacement motor for the lifter. All in all, Tormenta 2 should finally be on the road to reliability. :)
Four 18v 24:1 Argos-cased motors with two hacked 85a escs on 6s 4800mah lipo. It's a lot better than I originally envisaged it to be.
Are you running 100mm wheels? If so that thing must rocket!
Also means all 3 robots (Robob, T2 and 720) will be 10mph+, it's going to be an intense fight!
It's running 75mm wheels, the wheelbase is so short that speeding it up any more may make it uncontrollable. It's already crazy enough as it is!
As we wait for the stuff from Gimson and the replacement motor for the lifter we've done a few little bits.
Here's what she looks like as of tonight. There are a few more on photobucket: http://s1088.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... rmenta 2
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1363389657
Looks really good Ellis!