RE: Prizes
Kudos is enough for me, but I really wouldnt complain about being able to afford some much needed repairs.
RE: Batteries
Are we the only team who can run two fights consecutively without a charge?
i guess its like an F one car. they never put enough fuel in for 2 races lol. wasted weight.
Exactly, we will probably die after 3-4mins anyhow so i hope to have very fast high paced battles to get them out of the way with, We couldnt afford the weight of 9amp packs, its an added 2kg of weight we needed for armour.
The new one will be 9amp
Merlin will be fine for batteries but just gas would be the problem, so going have to hold-back abit on the flipper, only worry is it might make fights abit boring as most gas machines will have to hold back.
UFO and Knightmare have the other problem, both have old batteries which will struggle for 5mins.
Were just goning have to finish them off before the end of the fight!
Just another hurdle to overcome, beat em all before 5 mins
Feather will be OK (hopefully), but the mag motors draw more current on the heavy than the old ones, just have to hope they are more efficent under load. Suppose we could go for killing the other robot in less than 3 minutes as well. Interestingly priced up some Li-pos at under £800 for 10Ah at 36V with more peak current than our current Ni-cads by far. But wihout an incentive to spend any more on robots its hard to justify the cost.
erm hasnt it always been 5 minute fights? i dont see your problem Mark its nothing new,
No Kane Tanto runs for a set of batteries for 2 fights on the friendly side, however for preformance we change after every fight.
I was always under the impression that the UK battles ran for 5 minutes as well.
In Robot Wars they did run for 5 mins. Battlebots ran for 3 mins.
When was the last roaming robots fight 5 mins?
When was the last XFM fight 5 minutes?
Im sure that someone can tell me when the last 5 mins fight was, but I would guess it was 3 years ago back at series 7 of robotwars. Since then they have all been 3 mins, so am I the only one who thinks fights are 3 mins and everyone elses stopwatches are running 40% slow.
Every single roaming robots fight we have been in has been 3 minutes. With new batteries we can run 5 minutes, but theyre not new anymore and their capacity has dropped, but more important is that their internal resistance has risen, so they get very hot. We used to have 2 sets, but one went up in smoke at Colchester, so only have one pack left.
If any sponsers out there can get us 96 matched Sanyo Sub-C 2400mAh cells and make them into packs before next friday then Ill be very happy
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