Hi Paul, was abit worried reading the first few lines then! A few quick stats and bits of info for you;

Were currently on the 3rd Merlin, it was built for the UK Champs last year, went into the arena having never driven or flipped before! It got to the knock-out rounds, but went out to Pulverizer where we suffered a strange battery failure (never happened before, not happened since) but went on to win the Tag Team with Velocarippa. It came 3rd in the 2006 Winter tour (having one of our best fights aginst Storm 2 in the play-off). It went over to Dublin at the beginning of the year and won the competition, beating Big Brother in the Semis then Ripper in the final. It then got the final of the 2007 Robot Rumble, but due to damage from a previous fight against THZ our flipper wasnt sitting properly.

Its in need of abit of TLC over the winter ready for next year, along with a few upgrades.

Specs:

2x Bosch 750s
3x 24v 3Ah NiCad BotPacks
Vantec RDFR47e control
Spectrum RC
3.2mm Titanium Top and base
4mm Hardox sides, back and front.
Top Speed 12MPH
Full Pressure flipper, producing about 3tonnes and 900Kg at tip of arm.

Some bits on our Site http://www.teammad.co.ukwww.teammad.co.uk (in need of updating) also some pics of it on http://www.robotslive.co.ukwww.robotslive.co.uk and videos here; http://www.youtube.com/user/teammadhttp://www.youtube.com/user/teammad

Alan