Team Thrifty /Fifty Build Diary for Bitza

[Bodge Job]

[teamshock]

Us two and Heatwave, the monster flipper!

Don't worry its not the stupidly powerful flipper you'll be against (thats Whirlwind :wink: )

Heatwave is my brothers robot and is the one with loads of lights all over it. still a full pressure flipper though

[PJ-27]

Maybe it'll knock some life into Bitza!

Currently got problems.....

[PJ-27]

Would wire of a much thinner gauge heavily limit the current?

Some of the wiring in the robot is what came on the 2nd hand controllers, and I kept the wires on the motors, which are quite thin.

Figured I'd check with the experts before re-wiring the whole robot the week before the event.....

[Bodge Job]

I would strongly recomend that you change to thicker wires. on bruiser i had wires 2x as thick as the wires that come with the motors and this is what happend.
http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h46 ... od2023.jpg
in combat robots the thiner wires will not cope with the conditions and heat up untill they melt the plastic around it.

[typhoon_driver]

it shouldn't cause the problems you've described unless the wire has been burned out (would be obvious from the outside).

The wiring on the motors is usually not suitable for our application. The wiring on controllers however should be sized adequately (depending on the controller of course).

[PJ-27]

On the original drill motors we used I changed the wires, I didn't this time, I guess out of lazy-ness.

It's possible that a wire somewhere has started to burn out, I'll have a good check.

[PJ-27]

Good news! Turns out our Aluminium scoop is attracted to magnets..... so it must be steel meaning its stronger than we realised........ Every little helps!

[gizz]

Hehe nice one

[PJ-27]

Well after our first couple of events we plan on making a few changes. The first being we are changing the team name to Team Bitza to save confusion. The second being that Bitza is now out of action, it got a good beating from LH at the 02 (could have stopped when you got through the armour!) so we are now planning Bitza 2.0. Details to come soon......

Thanks to everyone for your interest in our bits-of-this-bits-of-that methodology, we plan to make it a theme in all the robots we build. And thanks to everyone that helped us out in Birmingham to make Bitza rank 15th!

For the mean time here is our Youtube channel;

http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamBitza

and Photobucket for images of Bitza;

http://s1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee4 ... %20Champs/