UK Kilobots - 1.362kg (3 lbs) Combat Robots

[calumco]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

lol jamie, im persuming they are fine as i've got them and so has kenny and tom- with slightly different gearing, i've tried one on a battery with the wheel on, and one alone seems to have decent enough power

if everyone buys these motors and they end up being usless- although im sure they wont, please dont chase me with pitch forks

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Lol, I'm having to rethink my six-motors strategy as at £12 a pop that's £72 for drive motors alone! Think I might try and rustle something up with speed-hacked servos in a 4WD formation, kinda like Alan's FW Omega, but with a lifting arm like Trisector.

Wait, what am I saying?! I'm a Scot, therefore it should be spinner or nothing!

[razerdave]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

I am looking to use the 100:1 mini MFA motors as sold in Maplins, and used on my ant arena pit mech, and according to the web, they are 72g, so

[daliad100]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

I was thinking cheap cordless screwdrivers as motors, gearboxes and possibly a source of batteries (I think the second cheapest from B&Q weigh ~260g) so hopefully with some careful case removal and mounting that will go down.

[widow_twanky]

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

[john_frizell]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Cheap cordless screwdrivers are good. I built a 2 lb (908g) robot out of two of them from Argos at £5 each and used the batteries as well. But even using cheap plastic wheels from a model car glued to the screwdriver bits [which works well] the drive units weigh 225 g each. So two of them will eat up almost half of your weight allowance.

[daliad100]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

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

According to my antivirus those links are trojans and I can't open them.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Ditto, thank god for Avast

I used cheap cordless screwdrivers for a 3kg sumo bot at the UKRG. Was a bargain really as they were £3.99 each and that gave me my motors and batteries. Weighed about 1.27kg or something total but it was slow and I found grip to be poor, although I was using narrow wheels. But you get what you pay for I suppose. They are weighty though as mentioned but may work quite well if you gear one down for use as a lifter weapon or something.

[cliveb]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

norton stopped it as well

[widow_twanky]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

well try going to the main site http://www.robotkitsworld.com, going to motors for the motors, wheels for the wheels and hardware for the motor brackets. Virus checkers can often see question marks in links as an issue.

Andy

[craig_colliass]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Taken from technobots

This is a bit of a strange big brother to our popular series of GM11a-GM14a series of motors.
It has a 35:1 gear head larger than the others, and sports a bigger, beefier 030 form-factor motor.
The geometry is a bit strange, as the motor sits angled askew from the gearhead. Bizarre, but the motor performance is worth the effort.
Weighing in at only 15grams each, this motor could be very good at mini-sumo or other robot contests needing power in a small package!

Mini-sumo is 500gram pushing robot so I thought it would be ok for a 1000gram fighting robot stall current is over 2 amps!

[dgr]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

For the record, those links worked fine for me. lol.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Weird, even when I go to the main site, I get a trojan warning.

Meh, will give it a couple of days.

[team_orr]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

dont get me started on antivirus, i got a virus called personal antivirus, sounds like a norton thing but its actualy a scam that blocks every other website and wont let you do anything until you buy the software for $200

[xtreme]

Re: UK Kilobots - 1kg Combat Robots

Robot Kits World opened for me.
im using them little gearmotors similar to the ones youv been talking about as my drive motors. 50:1 ratio in using with the 5a sabertooth, Im only going for these motors as want a really low profile robot. kennys using the same as me, kennys also using one of the 298:1 motors in his.

Calum you have that rolling steel chassis so why dont you whack your radio gear in it and test it, see what its like for driving with over 1kg of weight on it.