17th February 2008 Roaming Robots Barnsley Metrodome

[tom_kane]

KO is ace. All over Big Nips and set them on fire, cant ask much more from the old bird can ya?!?! Cheers Tony

[robotwars]

Do we know what went wrong with big nipper yet, very unusual, it looked like expensive smoke !!

[tom_kane]

err yea, it got Kan-Opened!

Mark was saying that one of the mosfets blew along with a capasitor that evaporated.

[paulc]

Sounds painful . Ive seen the best bits - I think its AWESOME!

[big_nipper]

All over Big Nips, so you should be after we lost steering 20 seconds into the fight.

Personally I think that The Saint should have won since Kan-Opener went for a disabled robot for the whole fight

After watching Tonys vid its clear we lost drive to one side after being slammed againsts the arena sidewall by KO and was unable to steer. It just got worst from there.

Not looked at the damage yet, other that at the event but looks simple enough to fix. Just replace the FET board for that motor, clean up the black stuff and with a bit of luck nothing else will be damaged, wiring looks intacked but will know more when we look at it this weekend.

[tom_kane]

Is that all it took for Kan-Opener to take you out?

20 seconds

Its not a record for KO but its up there

20 seconds to beat the UK champ:-)

[robotwars]

Glad it can be repaired easily Mark.

I think this was a class event in terms of the fights, some really good ones, and the new format is working nice with a mixture of fun and competition fights!!!

I know I was nervous before fighting Thor and i missed that with white board fights!!

John

[tom_kane]

How was hammer time Jonno? I didnt get to see it again!

[robotwars]

it was a LOT of fun.....

The first fight, it was running good. But couldnt hit anything as I kept missing.

The second fight i tried only using 2 batteries, and the hammer was lame!!

But looking forward to playing wih it at colchester.

John

[bigflipper]

Hi All,

If you would like to look at my profile you will see all the damage caused and what caused the damage. It would appear we lost a segment out of the motor armature which it looks like may have stalled the motor, smashed all the bushes causing the speed controller to set on fire. So sorry Tom Im afraid you cant class this as one of your kills. If anybody out there has a spare armature for a MAG S28 400 please let us know.