Using gold motors

**robotic_ants** · 15th March 2004, 00:12

Yeah but then look at the price tag of each motor its around Â£132.695 (roughly 1 USD = 0.555209 GBP) for one (High Torque) ThinGap motor only (minus shipping) while the 24v Gold Motor is only Â£24.95 (minus p&p). Unless your wallet is like Eds or you have the money to use its not a option for many people.

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

**geoff** · 15th March 2004, 00:35

Hey, I never said they were cheap! I only said they were the ultimate soloution! But imagine a 4 wheel drive featherweight using 4 of them.. 1.2 Kw of drive on the floor!! (One for Ed

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**geoff** · 15th March 2004, 01:14

Nah, screw that!... http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_wheels.html http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_wheels.html

TW custom machined wheels or NPC 4 drive wheels!

**robotic_ants** · 15th March 2004, 01:38

TW Wheels ... good point! humm.. durometer urethane

*drool* Oh well I can at least dream, Ill go back outside in the cold and work on poor little MDF Conundrum on my workmate hehe..

Oh btw 4:1 ratio on Golds for drive, gosh thats the same ratio as what we use on Conundrums drum, lol I better take your advice and make the Gold work harder on 3:1

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

**glen** · 15th March 2004, 06:27

aha, while your all dreaming of thingaps in featherweights, us australian people all ready have one!!! its called minotuar...

http://www.abbl.org/robots/index.php?mode=view&id=69&sid=d088a4caba5475157289 0ffbc9bbfd4e http://www.abbl.org/robots/index.php...a54751572890ff bc9bbfd4e

**knightrous** · 15th March 2004, 07:15

Yeah, Minotaur will only have two though, but it hsad the awesome CNC machined 23:1 reduction boxes for them too. Maybe when we get some decent treads on T2M, we might step up the voltage to 24v and challenge him to a pushing match

**mute** · 15th March 2004, 08:58

1.2KW and vulkallon tyres wont make it stick to the floor. Micro Mute 2 uses 2x 480W motors, 4WD and 4 vulkallon tyres and it wheel spins everywhere, even with another feather attached to the front.

Motors are bosch 12V 120W (approx 3 dia) overclocked to 24V pulling around 10,000 rpm, 4.5:1 reduction to 5 wheels which ends up at around 25-30mph. The motors get warm, where as the batteries get HOT.... very hot....