Quote Originally Posted by mackemforever View Post
It does involve a protected spinner but using a mechanism which has a fail state of open. Essentially once it is set at the start of a battle if it loses power, either due to damage or being manually disabled, the mechanics of the system result in it immediately being in the open position leaving the weapon accesable.

As for the weight (which is actually around 90kg, I made a typo in the original post), the numbers behind the system already give it as much power at the tip of the blade as Carbide had in the previous series.
The energy of the impact is nowhere near as important as the spinup time. If it takes 20s to get up to speed it is not going to be very good.

Sounds like your armor isn't very thick, or is made from something very light. On our spinner we have 10mm hardox 500 and 15mm aluminium.

Also our design is almost all bolted. The only welds are to attach the teeth to the spinning ring.