Team Death - New Heavyweight

[team death]

Mixed Fortunes this weekend on the Robot building front
I had ordered some parts online to make the removable link and
typically ebay sellers with high feeback scores send poor quality
goods or in this case the wrong item so I ended up buying parts
locally to make some progress.
It can be a bit of a headache when it comes to where you
place the removable link, you need to make it easily accessable but
at the same time protected against axes and spikes and spinners.
So after a bit of head scratching I decided to place it in the wheel arch
and it worked well-protected and still easily removed even if blindfolded.
The previous week, Niall described the housing for the Speed controller
and I decided to place a secondary housing next to it to house the RC battery
pack and reciever, this has a piece of polycarbonate to protect it and a dome
metal cover (fire extinguiser bottom) covers both housings.
I confident this multi layered system will protect the delicate electronics from
the likes of Thors axe.
Adam was struck down with a bug at short notice and wasn't
able to come but Niall came through to help out on Sunday.
I have allways used my own basic relays in previous robots and
with a bit of luck we hope to use a speed controller in a team death
robot for the first time, i'm anxious to see this work even in static
mode with the wheels off the ground but I'm also aware that the ESC
is the most expensive bit of kit we have bought for the Robot and
great care is needed installing it.
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Picture 1 removable link housing in position
picture 2 tried and tested removable link type
picture 4 housing for reciever and ESC
Picture 5 cover made from fire extinguiser
Picture 3 top view of robot
For Some reason the pictures didn't appear last week so here
they are-more to report tomorrow