Slaughterhouse

[harry hills]

We've had our first go, and I think its safe to say that everyone learned at least one thing. All the kinks can be worked out for when Beetleweight competitions actually start properly
http://bigconkers.com/forum/first-outing
My pictures and videos are here. Please do add your own if you took them, and if you feel like posting a write up of your machine in the new meat section or some advice in the hints and tips, all the better.

Any thoughts or comments?

Cheers. Harry.

[Danjr1]

did anyone use these motors at the weekend? if so, was wondering if there were any issues with them.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-12V-DC...item4d02562621

im working on some converted brushless ESCs, again based on the botbitz open source code, that would allow use of the dx6i Tx. The ESC in question is the tz12a from hobbyking so when i get round do it, ill get testing and see how it goes.

cheers

dan

[plargen]

i use them in my beetle hasn't been battle tasted yet but its had a good few runs round the house and about a 20 min run outside, haven't noticed any issues yet

[harry hills]

Related, the 25mm MFA motors.. I wouldn't really recommend them now. Burnt out a motor and they were a bit slow tbh. I want to change up to the 1000rpm ebay ones. Weston will probably back me up about the slowness problem.

[swanaldo]

Upgrades to the Slaughterhouse are going well. Ordered 12 new motors and will be upgrading RPM and XXX shortly.

[swanaldo]

Trophy for Robots live Leicester event will be Made up for the winner of the weekend.

Few new builders building beetles for this event too.

Grapevine news......later in the year there will be a nice event involving ants and beetles...I will sort out a prize fund for this one with it being the first official beetle weight champs.

[harry hills]

Am pleased to announce that we finally got our trophy for the slaughterhouse 2014 champs, its absolutely perfect. I predict some fierce competition over it!

Harry.

[Eventorizon]

did anyone use these motors at the weekend? if so, was wondering if there were any issues with them.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-12V-DC...item4d02562621

We have got 6 of those for beetle we are building. I will let you know how they cope if I get them running in time.

[plargen]

are you going for a 6wd ram bot

[Eventorizon]

are you going for a 6wd ram bot

A 4WD rambot and a 2WD spinner.

How many people are actually putting fuses into their beetles? It is in the FRA rules but I don't recall seeing any in the beetles at the Heavyweight champs. The same goes for the metal under Lipo's rule. I don't want to go building new machines that will be failed at the champs.