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Just make sure your charger cable doesn't let you accidentally plug in a 2 cell antweight battery and a 3 cell feather batteries at the same time... I learnt that lesson in a rather fiery explosion :roll: Other than that, don't short them out or poke holes in them and you'll probably be fine :P
Lol thanks for all the help :) I've purposefully stayed away from them till now, but after seeing people use them up close on Saturday I'm pretty sold :)
Some video of Fhqwhgads in action last weekend here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNx4Tv8HZA
Managed to take on 3 spinners and beat the lot of them! Even if all their weapons stopped... still, was rather fun! Will be sorting out the clearance issue and the lack of grip on the wheels for the next event, definitely. They were hard foam with duct tape hubs so definitely room for improvement in that regard. Other than that and a few changes structurally, it'll be back in the ring before long! Oh, and I've finally got the mixing sorted on the Tx so at long last I'll be able to drive somewhat coherently!
I'm sorry to be a pain, and this is really weird, but I'm an absolutely massive fan of your beetle and wondered if you could put some up-close pictures up? Really interested to see how it goes together up close. Meant to come and have a look on the day but it was all a bit of a whirlwind.
Thanks! Of course I can too, the electronics are a little out of place but you'll probably be able to get the general idea (sorry about the crappy phone photos)
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Everything was put together in a couple of hours using whatever I had laying about, which is why a lot of it looks pretty badly made. The main 2mm aluminium 'chassis' is just a bent piece of the stuff that I had left over from HW1, it's essentially just a large piece of Ali angle with the two gearboxes bolted to that. After that, the wood's just screwed onto some small angled pieces of steel I think (no idea, just had them about) and then onto the base, with the hdpe outer frame being attached to that piece of wood via wood screws.
When I end up modifying it, that wood will be HDPE with barrel nuts probably, the wood split which is why there's loads of cable ties on it haha!
Oh my god that's awesome. Those gearboxes are amazing where'd you get those :) Thank you for the pictures :)
The gearboxes Matt brought from me ages ago, they're originally meant for rc tanks
Haha cheers! Nothing too elaborate though, I'm not in any way technically skilled enough to make nice things on my own haha.
And yeah they were RC tank gearboxes, I believe they were 1:16th scale and these ones have nylon gears which are a lot lighter than the steel ones you can get I'd imagine. Which you'd almost definitely need because they're like 200g a piece with the nylon gears! 99% sure you can find roughly similar ones on eBay, think they have slightly different ratios depending on the tank they were used in. Not too badly priced either, not a whole lot more than a pair of the 1000rpm gearmotors from what I've seen.
That's cool. Fancy building a beetle that's a bit different for the next event as well as a new pusher but not really sure what to build.
What I've been doing whilst looking for potential designs is look at what weapons are currently represented in the beetle class and pick something that isn't used so far, such as a crusher or something. I quite like the idea of an overhead saw, like Gloomy and MegatRon from the US (the former of which I borrowed the catchers idea from for Fhqwhgads, coincidentally) but there's definitely plenty of ideas out there to go at!