How could I Improve pt 2

[corsair_lightning]

Cyrilium 5 is now up. Cyrilium Mach 4 is a goner.

[kodster]

As much as I hate to admit it, Mark, that is a very decent design. As always, though, there are a few problems (courtesy of Dave Weston)

1) 2200mAh is nowhere near good enough for a HW. Heck, antweights have more than that! You'd need at least 5 times that. At LEAST. And do remember that 1000mAh = 1A.

2) You might want to switch to SLAs instead of NiCads but that's just Dave.

3) Where are the lifting arm and axe positioned? How can the axe put out 650kg of force?

4) Strengths/weaknesses again? Sigh...

[joey_picus]

Well he's got three 2200mah packs, which is 6600mah...to me that seems slightly pushing it for a quartet of overvolted Mags and a pair of actuators, but I'd say that would be enough for 95% of the fights you're likely to be in (lots and lots of ramming and lifting might run them down to a standstill)

P.S. which ants are these that run 2200mah? Jigsaw ran 350mah at the AWS and that was considered a bit excessive :P

[RogueTwoRobots]

I wouldn't put my faith in 6600mAh to be honest, although I'm basing that on old SLA mAh ratings needed for heavyweights; Nicads and A123s certainly being able to run heavyweights with less mAh. What about using 3Ah cells for each pack, thereby having 9Ah (9000mAh) in total? Would be a bit more of a safety barrier.

[kodster]

sorry Joey, I messed up and thought Satanix was an AW. It was actually Stewie I was thinking of. :P Apologies.

[knightrous]

2) You might want to switch to SLAs instead of NiCads but that's just Dave.

SLA's?! Lets all go back a century or two technologically NiCD and Lithium provide a much better peak amps and storage capacity over SLA's for weight and size.

[corsair_lightning]

1: That's 2200mAh per pack, and since all packs are 30v packs, they're run in parallel to get 6600mAh total. But anyways, I've upped them to 3000mAh packs.

2: No... Only the oldest heavyweight robots tun off of SLAs(With a few exceptions, mainly Jack Orr's prototype robots). And I'm listening to Aaron's advice.

3: Look at the revised stats. The axe system is a modified version of the one used on Hydra, which put out 660kgs, and this one uses a bigger ram, but puts out less power.

4: They're supposed to be redundant.

[kodster]

1: That's 2200mAh per pack, and since all packs are 30v packs, they're run in parallel to get 6600mAh total. But anyways, I've upped them to 3000mAh packs.

Still a bit small; even in my old heavyweights back in 2004 I used at least 3600mah, but whatever.

2: No... Only the oldest heavyweight robots tun off of SLAs(With a few exceptions, mainly Jack Orr's prototype robots). And I'm listening to Aaron's advice.

SLA's?! Lets all go back a century or two technologically NiCD and Lithium provide a much better peak amps and storage capacity over SLA's for weight and size.

Mark, Cabrakan runs off of SLAs, and they suit him quite well.

Heard of Hawkers, Aaron? :P

3: Look at the revised stats. The axe system is a modified version of the one used on Hydra, which put out 660kgs, and this one uses a bigger ram, but puts out less power.

Fair enough.

4: They're supposed to be redundant.

Exactly. So don't put them there. :P

[joey_picus]

I was going to point Hawkers out myself :P there's very very few nicads you can get 1000 amp peak currents from...

The main advantage of NiCads and etc, as I've said, is they have more capacity for the same weight of SLAs.

[corsair_lightning]

The reason they're redundant is because they're masking the machine's true weaknesses.