Team Eventorizon: Build Diary

[Eventorizon]

unplug the brushless from the rx and see if the drive works without the disc running and shell on...

Tried that today and it made no decernable difference. At this rate Binky is only going to be fighting in one corner of the arena.

On another note... I have got some Titanium TA10 plates to go at the front of Binky as ground scrapers. I am going to have it annealed it get it to stay constantly flat to the floor. But I can't find what temperature I need to heat it to so that it will under go the right transition, and how long I need for it to cool down.

[PJ-27]

Poke the aerial out of the chassis Old Skool style, but with a modern twist (it'll be tiny).

[Ellis]

That is what I have been thinking all along. ^

Is it possible to velcro the rx to one of the armour panels?

[mattsdragons]

Im fine with him fighting in one corner

[Eventorizon]

It is possible if I extend the wires somehow. The problem is that as Binky has such shallow sloped armour, any robot that ends up riding on top if they drive into the side or rear might just take it clean off. I will see what happens with the new RX's

[typhoon_driver]

Have you tried the transmitter and receiver away from the robot to get a range check?

[Eventorizon]

Done a full range check as described in the manual with and without armour, just driving one wheel; in case multiple BEC's were messing with the signal somehow.

Run it with and without the HV160 attached with armour on and off. I am almost out of options.

[PJ-27]

In all of those situations still only a few feet range?

[Mouldy]

When you get your new RX, make sure you only have one BEC feeding it, before you do any possible damage.

[grant_ploughbot]

What you should really have got if it is that your armour is blocking the signal is to get the spektrum carbon fuse receivers. http://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/Defa ... =SPMAR6255

They have extra long antenna's so that you can poke them outside the carbon fiber body on planes. You could then easily make up a small block of polycarb that mounts onto the backplate of the robot out the way of other robot's.

It does seem odd that your having issues though.