From The Ground Up (Advice Thread)

[Roland]

Good advice if ever I've heard it.

And I'm sigging that if you don't mind!

[daliad100]

It's probably more than 6 times if you include the corona that goes stupidly far into spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccee...

[Roland]

Just noticed my battery packs exceed the perimeters for sabretooth controllers, 25v with 42 batteries? Way over. I'm assuming I can modify the packs I've bought so that I use less cells, this depends on how much current I need, would 3300mAh be enough for a 4wd 18v pusher?
I think I could modify it and change them to two packs of 12v 3300mAh, but that would leave me with 20 cells, which I noticed Gary said in another thread burnt out sabretooth controllers he had bought. 10.8v batteries? That keeps me in the perimeter? Aaaaah

Edit: Or simpler, 25v with 21 cells, that doesn't exceed the perimeters by much and drops half the cells? Thoughts are desperately needed!

Thanks again

[Roland]

Hm, does anybody know any good countersunk allen head screw vendors? Me typing it into google only shows up naff results.

Thanks!

[RogueTwoRobots]

I got some recently from this eBay seller: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M6-X-30-COUNT ... 1047wt_905

He has different sizes and quantities too.

[blazerbotics]

10quid for 100?? get yourself down to a fastners place, think i paid about £2 last time for similar

[Roland]

Found a site that sold m6*40 for 6 quid or something, only bought 50 though.
Couldn't find anything called 'fasteners place'? eBay seemed to expensive though.
Thanks anyway guys!

[blazerbotics]

where you based?

[Roland]

Lewes in East sussex, same as the Terror Turtle team. I'm up in Whitby, Yorkshire at the moment though. I don't think there are many east sussex roboteers.

[blazerbotics]

Active teams i can think of are Turtle, Big Brother, Barbaric Response, not sure about feather teams.

Just search for Fasteners in google or yell.com, most will have a trade counter.