Team Saint Robot Builds

[craig_colliass]

Some parts have arrived from the suppliers, I don't know how they will act in the ball but first thing is to get the mock-up chassis working on the flat
the electronic part is the mixer this is connected between the motor speed controllers and the Rx

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Still waiting on the small motor units and some speed controllers,

Dave your right I can use theDX6 mixer on the Tx, but I tend to default to the V-tail mixer units just my style of doing things.

[craig_colliass]

My first attempt at moulding plastics was a complete success, It is defiantly moulded

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[craig_colliass]

I cant see a thread to post about the Guildford event that happened over the weekend, so I'm posting here.

As always a big thanks to John and ALL the team at Robot Wars. the shows seemed to go very well and the audience seemed to enjoy the shows yet again. Had some great fights and looking forward to seeing the videos soon. Great to see some old friends, and so good Zack could join me for this event. there was a good selection of robots for the shows and finding places in fights was quite hard. only one fight per heavy per show. There were a lot of robots there!
Looking forward to Barnsley.

Robots taken were Saint and Gabriel also Seraph and E-Knock, with Kettle and Mc Apple.
Saint worked well and even stayed in the arena well almost (see video when it's out)
Seraph had some intermittent fault that I just could not be bothered to sort out!
E Knock worked well until one gearbox seized possibly blowing a speed controller. More on that one as news breaks!
Kettle bot worked better than it has for ages possibly better than ever, this due to a change in the transmitter used from the spec 5e to the spec 6I.
Mc Apple was good fun and people liked it, not sure whether to keep it or scrap it will decide later.

But for us the star performer had to be Gabriel it is now going like I wanted it too. I would be interested to know how the arena floor held up to the sledge hammer!
with the new speed controllers and motors it has all the power I need. I have a feeling the gearboxes may need some modification latter down the road as the load on them must be horrific. the torque limiters built into the wheels seemed to work as we didn't notice any slipping when driving but the aluminium washers were polished so something moved when it had to.