RogueTwo Robots

[harry hills]

+1 for good sense of humour

[Mouldy]

...you just failed your tech check in advance

[PJ-27]

Lol

[Mega Masher]

"Cough720cough"
Both bots still look great tho

[RogueTwoRobots]

*cough*that-was-the-whole-point*cough*

Update

Final weekend, time to get everything (or almost everything) done! Managed to get a few hours in the shed after work today to tackle the wiring side of things. Took a fair bit of time but that's no bad thing, don't want to lose to a dodgy connection. Here's the entire wiring loom for Drumroll:



A lot simpler and much more minimal than I was expecting. Decided to ditch the power distribution bolt method this time; I still like it but its a bit bulky and has greater potential for short circuits. This time the only connections are Deans (all of which will be cable-tied together with exception of the link) and there's a bit of splicing going on. All wires are soldered so hopefully chances of something failing are remote.

Then I threw in a couple of LED strips. Wired in series as they're only rated to 12V, so these aren't as bright as most others due to only receiving 9.25V each, but still plenty visible and much better than the single green LED I've had for the past couple of years:



And finally for today, I picked up a delivery of new belts for the drum. 15mm shorter than the polyurethane ones I used previously, and much tougher:



The tooth profile's a bit different (5M as opposed to T5) so they lose sync after a quarter or so of the pulley circumference, but I put one in place earlier and it's not enough to cause any problems. Need to make a new motor mount though as the belt is too tight to spin freely so I need to move the motor closer to the front. Got 8mm or so free to move it so that should add just enough slack to let it spin yet still keeping it a good fit. Might also let me put the flux rings back on the drive motors.

Plenty going on this weekend so more updates to follow.

[harry hills]

Awesome stuff man. Just made myself a similar wiring loom lol.
I'm really looking forward to our fight, how you feeling about your others?

[Mouldy]

finally!! have to ask you to tape up them ghetto bolts every year! I wish everyone would put the same effort into there wiring.

[RogueTwoRobots]

[RogueTwoRobots]

Cheers Harry. Just saw some of the wiring in your latest blog update; loving the decals too.
As for my other fights, still deciding whether to approach them cautiously or just go all-in-balls-out.

NST is the biggest threat but I can't do any worse than the last time I faced it. Bonx and Satanix will be hard to deal with, could easily push me in the pit, but my drive setup is much nearer their level this year so I just need to make sure my driving's up to scratch. Hatchet is looking good but I've got a 6mm polycarb top and Little Hitter has never got through it so I'm not too worried, Ricochet could be a slippery customer but the drum's only 2mm away from the floor this year so I should be able to catch it with a hit, maybe OOTA if I'm lucky. Killer Bee (changed from Hornet) is an unknown quantity so will just need to take that as it comes.

So I'm not expecting it to be easy, but I'll be disappointed if I don't make it through the qualifiers.

[mrsam]

I'm definitely looking forward to fighting this it's probably my favourite featherweight, i doubt very much Hacthet's axe can do much to 6mm polycarb, i've tested it against 11mm and it did pretty much nothing. Looking great though, i seem to have adopted the distribution bolt method (sorry Dave).