How could I Improve pt 2

**neontetra23** · 29th July 2008, 19:44

4wd should be a good compromise

revised stats:

Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control

**neontetra23** · 30th July 2008, 01:57

OOPS! made a mistake

Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 100X65X25
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control

Seeing as Robo-Platypus was such a success hereâ‚¬â„¢s....

Robo-Aardvark
Name: Robo-Aardvark
Shape: A box with sloped sides (that does not include the front and back)
Colour: Light blue with the picture of an aardvark on the top
Speed: 10MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Motors: 2 Team Wyachi TWM3s @ 36V
Power: 7 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 wheels with a vulkalon coating
Ground Clearance: 4MM
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 90X55X45
Weaponry: 1) A Rear hinged flipper powered by 2 80X140 pneumatic rams running of a 3KG tank
2) A 20KG vertical fly wheel running at 2500RPM inside the flipper
powered by a perm 132, it has 16 2CM teeth
Srimech: the flipper
Strengths: Powerful weapons, Weapons synergy, Both weapons able to perform OOTAâ‚¬â„¢S
Weaknesses: Thin armour, Quite slow

30th July 2008, 19:16

Ben, is there much point in having 2 flipper systems on your machine?

I would scrap the forward hinged system and put the weight saved to better use (for example the 4mm titanium armour)

And 3mm ground clearance is too low

**leorcc** · 30th July 2008, 19:18

One flip and you will rip your own flipperarm off

**leorcc** · 31st July 2008, 17:03

Paul, I didnt want to say this in Kodys tournament but Nitrogen is not filled on weight but on pressure. So 2x 1,5kg Nitrogen makes no sense. Under FRA rules (and I hope you guys use those pneumatic rules because the RFL rules are lethal, Im amazed no one died there yet) the main bottles are only allowed a maximum of 1000psi.

CO2 is liquid inside the bottles, and therefore those are weighed since pressure is too variable.