Torrent's build diary - a dream coming true!

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The rule for batteries is that it must be fused for below your maximum discharge of the battery (I think), I'd give this plenty of leeway though, especially if you're going for a Turnigy pack or something. Whilst it is part of the rules, the last thing you'd want is to overdischarge your battery and cause yourself a fire because you don't know what you'll lose in doing so. That said, drill motors don't draw too heavily, I know robots that have used 2 drills on one TZ85 and they've been fine on those.
Drill motors technically draw 85A on stall I think but as long as you don't keep it on stall if you have a broken motor, you'll be fine. Mounted correctly too, the ESCs are pretty resilient to most things. Battery-wise, that sort of capacity sounds fine. Could probably even upgrade that if you really wanted, depending on how much weight you've got left - might be handy if you want to take part in more side events at the FW champs, for instance. Not sure how often/long the feather fights are at the Heavy events because I haven't been to one of those yet...

Have you got a design planned out for your machine, at all? Might be handy to post something, even just a Microsoft Paint diagram of it so people can probably try and advise further!