How Could I Improve...

[corsair_lightning]

The Hydra system.

Which would give me ???kgs of force?

Hydra uses a standard ram 63mm diameter, 250mm stroke, so about 500kg on 16 bars on the forward stroke and 470kg on the return. That with a decent axe head is not bad. Not THz, but not bad.

[joey_picus]

Hydras was the same as used by Shunt if I remember correctly...Killerhurtz had the ram going onto a chain drive to the axe (?) and Terrorhurtz is rack and pinion.

...Speaking of rack and pinion, would you be able to have a rack and pinion pneumatic drive on a disc? The way I was thinking is that youde use the pneumatics to spin it up really fast, and then the ram would contact a switch which would disengage it, and a motor could be used to keep it spinning. Would that work?

[leorcc]

Hydras axe was indeed based on the same specs as Shunt.

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The way I was thinking is that youde use the pneumatics to spin it up really fast, and then the ram would contact a switch which would disengage it, and a motor could be used to keep it spinning. Would that work?I like that kind of out the box thinking, very good.

Would it work? Yes. Would it be practical? No. Why? it only adds a lot more weight to your robot and overcomplicate things. You would need some kind of clutch system to engange and disengage, which is always prone to failure. If you want to accelerate, why not place a row of magnets on the disk and make the entire disk a brushless motor? That is lighter and less cumbersome.

[joey_picus]

I thought as much, lol. I was also wondering how Id make it work for multiple spinups as well but that brushless motor idea sounds interesting, Ill have to do some more research on that.

[kodster]

A motor used as a weapon. Lovely.

[leorcc]

It is done before, check the robot on my profile. Its just smaller, but there is no reason it wouldnt work for a heavy. You will need some serious battery power though.

[kodster]

Wasnt Warheads bowl weapon just one giant motor with teeth?

[corsair_lightning]

Ninjoid Evo
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Tornado Mer with a skirt around the bottom.
Colour: Black, with red on top.
Dimensions: 95cm x 95cm x 25cm
Drive: 4x S28-400 Magmotors powered by 5x NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 4 foam filled wheels
Armour: 7.5mm Titanium/Vanadium alloy
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm with skirts, and 5mm without skirts.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: A 1.3m 136kj 3000rpm titanium blade, powered by the Combatparts 4-mag gearbox with 4 S28-400 Magmotors. The robot has lots of shockproofing to counteract the force of the blade.
Srimech: The force of the blade can cause it to right itself after a flip. Sort of like Mauler, except it cannot be stranded on its back.

(Message edited by corsair_lightning on May 01, 200

How can the blades force alone right it? Also, you continually seem to miss out drive motors for your weapons.