Ant weight finishing

[lowtech]

I would like to know wether the attached file is good enough for me to bother bringing it to an event and I am having some last minute troubles with the flipper it can not raise 150g would this http://www.rcmodelcentre.co.uk/S/TEC-PA ... d_634.html provide enough torque for the flipper.

[joey_picus]

Re: Ant weight finishing

I can't view Word documents so I can't see the picture properly I'm afraid but going on the text it doesn't seem bad, really as long as an antweight works and is held together pretty well you can take it to a RL or RR event and have it last the entire day or two days. I can't really make the same guarantees about more competitive antweight events and ones that allow spinners I'm afraid :P but you'll not find any lack of people offering help and advice once you bring it to an event.

The PArk Flyer servo will provide more than enough torque to lift/flip a 150g robot, so that's a good choice its slightly faster stablemate the Park HPX F used to be the flipper servo of choice in most antweights and is still about as good as you can get with plastic gears.

[harry hills]

Re: Ant weight finishing

looks very bigger brother-esc, how did you get it underweight with a 9v battery?
i agree about the park flyer servos, also try hitec mg82

[lowtech]

Re: Ant weight finishing

The chasy and servos weigh 30 grams or less but the servo I am using for the flipper is to weak so that might go up

[harry hills]

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what is a chasy? go nimh or even lipo for batterys. probably go for a metal geared servo for the lifter

[lowtech]

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Sorry a bit of sloppy typing for me I mean't chassis

[harry hills]

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ahh, i see

[gchachanidze]

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Can i just say these events as much as they are competitions they are also supposed to be fun so it is down to you on that as long as you have fun with it then it won't matter if you lose every battle

[harry hills]

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yep, in one year of antweights i can count my victorys on one hand
they are quite competitve though :twisted:

[lowtech]

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I am ready to fight but when I use the left wheel the flipper sometimes activates is cross channel interference possible

[harry hills]

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what radio system?

[lowtech]

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Planet T5 2.4 ghz

[harry hills]

Re: Ant weight finishing

in that case no.
what chanels have you got the drive plugged into/do you use a vtail mixer?

[team_orr]

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A video here would be great.
its hard to tell without seeing it but i think you probably have things plugged into the wrong channels, try playing around with that for a bit. are you using Servo's or motors? (my Word is playing up right now so cant open it again) if motors perhaps the ESC is messed up, but i cant see how that would effect the weapon. I did have a sort of similar problem with my transmitter way back at AWS 29 where i only had one wheel drive until i hit the trainer switch, the the other servo would just rotate continuously until i turned it off again, Gary deduced it to be some type of channel cross over in the transmitter: E.G wires touching, dogey connections. perhaps a similar thing could be happening here?
Jack

[Laser]

Re: Ant weight finishing

he's using servos jack