From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

**daliad100** · 19th August 2011, 08:43

Put your the motor's that are on the same side in parallel to give them full voltage.

Similar to the last diagram but without the servo and regulator shown here:
http://www.robotwars101.org/forum/vi...hp?f=10&t=1399

**Roland** · 20th August 2011, 18:15

Looks good! Thanks.
I had my 6 8.4v batteries delivered. They all have Deans connections but I have a couple of problems with this, how do I go about connecting 3 in series for 25.2v and how do I then attach them to the other 3 to give 25.2v at 6600mAh?

The battery charger did not come with a deans converter either so that's going to cost me and extra fiver buying one. It looks like at this rate I won't have it ready for Worthing.

**mattsdragons** · 20th August 2011, 19:35

disconnect the wires, put a positive on one of the deans prong, then the negative to the next positive of a battery and so on till you have one negative left and put it on the other deans prong.

(sorry if it sounds confusing

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**Roland** · 21st August 2011, 09:51

Hmmm, I can vaguely understand what you're describing, thanks Matt.

My Robochallenge wheels haven't arrived yet (even though they were meant to arrive on wednesday?) This is the second time products have been delivered late by them, has anyone else had this problem? Due to this I can't weigh out the internals properly as I don't have the wheels, would someone mind weighing out a pair of their 100mm blue wheels for me so that I have an idea of how much weight I have left for structure? Thanks!

**typhoon_driver** · 21st August 2011, 09:57

It's pretty standard because Grant and James have other large projects on. I believe they are working on a big one for the gadget show atm.

**Roland** · 21st August 2011, 10:17

Fair enough, I'm in pretty urgent need is the trouble as I'm building this week up at my grand fathers, I'll probably just make some cardboard mock ups to deal with it, I just need the weight of the things so I know what weight I have left!