Servo's

[teamhunt]

Hi
Can someone tell me where i can get some good, strong, light and fast servos.
Its for my best friends ant.
Can you give me URL and Part No.
Thanks!

[Gaseraki]

Servos

http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4718http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk...xd.asp?id=4718

The hpx supertec park servo is probably one of the best servos that I know price to stats.
Its one of the quickest servos I know bar some pricey heli servos
Its light
Decent gears, have to really push it to strip the gears
all in all it makes it a good servo

[teamhunt]

Servos

I think i might be using that for my ants Flipper, i wasnt sure if there where any better servos out there.

[xtreme]

Servos

The ant im making has a mini servo in it for its lifter. it wont actually lift anything near the weight of an antweight its just for show on mine at the moment but i might get one of those you linked to.

[teamhunt]

Servos

I was suggested it from David Weston, he uses it in his ant, Stewie.

[flippt]

Servos

For the Information, alot of todays Antweight Servo Powered lifter uses the HPX, including my antweight Flippt!. Some exceptions of ants that do not use this type of servo.

[teamhunt]

Servos

Heres the part no for the servo.
SMC-RE-7720415
I love flippt!
Can i use aluminuim for my ants flipper?

[flippt]

Servos

Good thing, now I have a fan!

Indeed you can. The only restriction is the armour thickness which is 1mm if its not moving, i.e not part of the weapon. Otherwise its fine.

Se Antweight rules:

+1>2)

j) The maximum thickness of metal armour is 1mm or 0.040 or 18 gauge (+/- 5% tolerance) (there are no thickness limits on non-metallic armour).

k) Armour consisting of one continuous metal plate must not protect more than one third of the robots perimeter (welded plates will be considered as a continuous metal plate).

l) Metal weapons that are more than 1mm thick, and that also provide armour-like protection, must be capable of remote controlled movement (with respect to the rest of the robot) in order to qualify as a weapon.

[teamhunt]

Servos

Great, using metal will beef up my flippers strengh.
Yes, i am a bit of a fan, but im me! (A geek, and W-E-I-R-D, I like cheesy Wotsits in Coke, you get the idea!)

[peterw]

Servos

Dont be so modest Joacim your robots are always well designed, built, driven and very difficult to beat.
I have just built my first real flipper and I used fibreglass pcb material for the main lifting surface.

[teamhunt]

Servos

Say, Peter, where do you get the track sytems for ur ants?

[peterw]

Servos

They are Tamiya (TAM70100) which gives you various cogs and tension pullies plus a selection of different lenth tracks that can be connected together.
I bought the last lot from here as they are cheap but you can get them in the UK.
http://www.buy-model.com/itemdetail.php?Id=862&FormZoneId=204&ShippingType= Surfacehttp://www.buy-model.com/itemdetail....pingType=Surfa ce
Some other Tamiya sets have motor and gearboxes included but they obviously cost more.
I then add some of the sticky rubber on the outside to improve the grip.

[teamhunt]

Servos

Oh, ok.
Just wanted to know incase i wanted a tracked ant.

[Guest]

Servos

It says on the page linked to the tracks that they weigh 485g, surely the antweight limit is 150g?

[razerdave]

Servos

Thats for a large set of them. He cuts them up into antweight size sections which will fit in the limit