Featherweight for £150

100% Working featherweight robot, preferaby with a moving weapon. I would only like to spend up to £150. Not much else to say. My parents want me to work on a ready to work one, so don't just tell me all the joys of making one from scratch. I don't care how good/useless it is, as long as it has a good electric system then it has potential. I know there isn't much of a criteria, so reply if you find one/have one? Also, this is my first robot, if it explains why I would like something which can be worked on.

A lot of people would disagree with you on the point of buying one, but I agree that it can be useful, it will be good to tinker with one that already works. Saw you point on the Battle Ratz too and I would suggest that they are not going to able to be converted into featherweights, but if its just something to tinker with you're looking for then that might be good. You could maybe even get hold of the instruction book for them and see how it all works by working backwards so to speak.

I understand how a robot works, if thats what you mean, and my father is a mechanic, so i shouldn't find many problems, and I do have a collection of VEX. My problem is that my parents want something they know works and is ready-to-go, they feel building it is too much of a hassle unfortunately.

I dont really mean anything by it, just agreeing with you. If you want to compete with a featherweight, a Battle Rat is probably not for you though. I dont know if they still run specific competitions at RR events though, I asked about that last night.

I might start from scratch, could you recommend a good speed controller to start with?

electonize of scorpion xl

Scorpion XL for 2WD and the Scorpion XXL fir 4WD

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General question related to this thread.
Has anyone ever bought a ready to run feather with a weapon for £150?

Is that a question or sarcasm? I honestly don't know which.

Seems like a question to me

And I don't think so, TBH it's quite ambitious to expect a pusher to come in at under £150, never mind something with a weapon.

I sold a featherweight pusher for around £150 a while ago- can't remember exactly how much- was ready to run and only needed a charger so you can pick one up for that sort of price.

A few years ago I had to come up with a basic featherweight kit for my school club- each one came in at around £120 includng radio and charger. Unfortunately the last ones were sold this summer.

Edit, not in the best of moods for this type of thing

Question

Is it possible to convert an 18v drill battery pack for use with an ESC?
Also, how do you make and attach a kill switch? Does it attach between the ESC and the power?

Go read through the hundreds of threads in the featherweight section. All of these questions and many more have been answered many times before. There is also a search feature on the forum.

I went through several pages and tried the search, I can't find anything relevant.

try this viewtopic.php?t=3414

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I went through several pages and tried the search, I can't find anything relevant.

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BS

Had to be said really didnt it?

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helps if you read the posts

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really it did have to be said bs mate u click on the page to read ir :)

it took me ages to realise you had to click the link! :roll:
Thanks it was really helpful. Ive made my list up, I defenitely know what I'm getting.
Im going for the original Scorpion ESC, a Spektrum DX5 and a Robochallenge kill switch. Also I am going to convert drill batteries.

robochallange kill switch, do you mean the removeable link? if so dont bother, make your own