there are 2 main reasons to the reduction in size and motors.
1: To get the weight down for more armour.
2: To reduce the forces on the parts in case of a miss.
Self OOTAs and other robots OOTA is still a very big possibility.
The inlet in the H III ram is sleightly bigger. From the bottleneck in the bottom of the ram of 8mm diameter to a full 1/2 inlet.
This constraint was set by myself in an efford to create a low profile, so a double sided driving robot was possible. We never did build H II as thus, as the wheels, and reduction became so big and heavy it couldnt fit in and leave weight for armor.
The force of the ram is lowered with 1/3 from 1500 kg+ to a mere 1000 kg
And Leo, dont tell all the secrets... I never mentioned the Unobtanium armor.
Im not an exper on pneumatics, but i know a reasonable amount. I presume that because your force is 1/3 less (so volume will be 1/3 smaller) that you ram will now fire to a full stroke in 2/3rds of the time? In this case H3 should be throwing feathers much higher
Put simply Acceleration = Force / Mass, so the more force you have lifting the other robot the faster it will accelerate until it leaves the flipper arm, of course if the pneumatics dont generate that force because of the flow restriction, then it will reduce the force from that expected, there are some online calculators to work out how far in theory you can throw a robot, but in the end its simpler to just build the biggest ram with the highest flow possible in the weight.
That is a fact. However there comes a point where it really becomes academic how much power you put in to it. Your robto and your opponents robot only weigh in at 12kg, so shoving them in the air with 250kg or 500kg at the point of the arm, unless you want to compare trajectories, both will do the job.
Pic on profile of Dragons Claw hopefully will be done for next week lots of holes to drill
Looks the business Tony. To me the back end looks a bit heavy, probably because its quite far back - does it affect its turning much??
Think I ought to start getting my crusher built too
Very nice. Cant wait to fight it
Dont know yet have not put drive motors on yet as i have got to get it welded first should have that done tomorrow then get it driving sat or sunday will let you know then
Oops, missed the fact that the components aint mounted down yet
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