Team Jeopardy: Endeavour

[SamO]

Update Time!!!!!

We went to Bluewater a few weeks ago with Endeavour... it didn't end well!!!!! Managed to survive an impressive 2 fights before one of the motors burnt out, killing the robot and ending our fun for the weekend Didn't bother going on the Sunday as we had no replacements. Took the motor apart and discovered the fan had melted (again) and then snapped off one of the brushes. The picture below should show it better:


So after this, Endeavour has had some serious TLC. The 14.4v 550's have been swapped out for some 18v 755's!:


To make this fit we had to file out some holes in the bulkhead and then set up some extra mounting to support the larger motor, nothing too major. The new motor pod looked like this (the one on the right):


Then when they were both fitted in the robot, it looked like this. You can see the new filter we are experimenting with to try and keep the motor cool. Its just the dust filter off a vacuum cleaner. Wouldn't be surprised if it began to melt but worth a shot I guess:


Lastly, the gyro. It has finally been successfully installed after quite a bit of hassle. Thanks to Dave Weston for selling it to us :


So that's Endeavour ready for Gloucester next weekend. Ohhh, and the build on the new bot will get underway soon, just waiting on the metal from Jon to get started.

Cheers