UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

22g? So the product description is only just over Twice as heavy as it should be!

Do you use them in your ants Dave?

I hope they're good, £50 is quite a sting!

[harry hills]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

yep, mine was well worth it untlil i blew it up

[Andy]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

does anyone know a good website to get brushless motors suitable for a spinning drum?

[razerdave]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

PJ: I use them in Bulletproof and Kill-a-chav and I have helped to make several other robots that use them and no complaints thus far. In fact I beleive Jonno uses them to power the 5KG Battle Ratz

Push-n-shove: Try Micron RC, they have quite a few good brushlesses.

[Andy]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Ok thanks, I'll have a look

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

I dunno about suitable, but I'm giving this website a good search;

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/index.rc

Is it the Australian forum that already has a well established Beetleweight category?

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

http://www.micronradiocontrol.co.uk/ba_esc.html

Do you reckon the 30a would be up to much?

[ewan]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Those are uni-directional controllers

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

22g? So the product description is only just over Twice as heavy as it should be!

Do you use them in your ants Dave?

I hope they're good, £50 is quite a sting!

I think the weight they show on Technobots is the packed weight, so that might include a fair few pieces of packing foam, or plastic bags or whatever. But a weight saving of more than 50% is no bad thing

And for the (almost) £50 cost you'd be as well spending £3 more and getting the 12A Sabretooth if size and weight isn't an issue. Definitely suitable for a beetleweight and probably usable in a 2WD drill featherweight if you ever need to swap parts around:

http://www.technobotsonline.com/saberto ... or-rc.html

[Andy]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Hopefully it is the same with my motors and wheels. I realised it says they weigh 160g each and the wheels 140g each. Bit too heavy.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

Hang on, wait, what parts are you using?!
My wheels weigh 13g each and motors about 72g

[harry hills]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

my wheels weigh 100g together and the motors are about 70g

[Andy]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

These work quite well, have a metal spur gear box and are cheap as chips. Speed is respectable on an 11.1V lipo but could do with a bit more oomph!! so a higher voltage would be good. Run time on a 300mAh lipo is half an hour or more.

Andy


http://robokitsworld.com/index.php?main ... ucts_id=50
http://robokitsworld.com/index.php?main ... cts_id=171
http://robokitsworld.com/index.php?main ... cts_id=204

Using these.

[PJ-27]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

@Jamie

Oh yeah! How come the 12a one is cheaper than the 10a and marginally more expensive than the 5a? It's lighter than the 10a too.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

It seems a bit weird but the only thing I can think is that the 12A model is superseding the 10A model so perhaps it now costs less to make the controllers than it did a few years back when the 10A one first came into production, and they've found lighter ways of making them? Who knows