Kinematic Events / Beetle Weights

**Flag Captured** · 20th February 2015, 02:49

If it's a proper competition, I'd say maybe 10% at absolute most (would allow 1550g), but I think 20g like Harry says would be a more suitable figure for it.
I suppose you could still let it slide for whiteboard fights etc if there will be any of those but if it's a proper competition I'd say to keep it as low as possible, as much as I'd like an extra 100g given the only battery I have takes up a third of the weight limit, but still...

**mrsam** · 20th February 2015, 06:36

I've got a spare 1300ah 3s lipo if you need it Matt, I do agree with the others, as much as 100g would be amazing it's a
way too much, 20g for a first event seems fair to me.

**razerdave** · 20th February 2015, 17:41

When I ran the beetle comp at the AWS, we only allowed 5g, but 1% weight allowance (15g, but 20 is fine for a round up figure) is perfectly fine

**stu** · 22nd February 2015, 11:26

Update on weight tolerance - as advised by the FRA there will be a 2% tolerance, on the day your robot must weight no more than 1.53kg (1.5kg + 2% (30g)).