LYNX Beetleweight

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Decided to post the rest of the video links if anyone's interested in them, they're alright, nout special.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...45985440196197

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...71619323612949

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...82229061280157

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...07065144849117

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Needs a new/borrowed RX and a lid but Lynx is basically finished and ready for Saturday, no idea how it'll perform as it's going in the arena untested but should be fun.

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Haven't updated this in a while, so Lynx has been to 2 events now and had mixed results. At the iron games in Wolverhampton it didn't work well at all, the grip was very poor and the weapon belt shredded every fight due to me stupidly using a timing pulley with a round belt (20,000+ rpm turns timing pulley into belt eating saw).

After it's disappointing first event it attended Whitwick over the weekend where it performed much better, unfortunately one of the drive esc's was playing up/half dead so it didn't really have completely free movement, the weapon however was working, very well in fact. In it's first fight with Limpet it managed to take out a wheel, a drive motor and bent his front scoop pretty badly out of shape but in the end still ended up in the pit due to having almost no grip and very little drive. well i say in the pit, it basically dug it's blade into the side of the pit and hung above it.

It's next fight was against the very heavily damaged Bork made out of wood, both robots had drive problems but Lynx was able to cause enough damage to win on a judges decision, there was sawdust everywhere. This put Lynx through to fight Headbanger, unfortunately the impacts from the weapon had broken a wire off the brushless esc board and with no time to fix it i had to withdraw.

All in all not a bad second event, the weapon is extremely powerful but the drive is an issue. The plan is to get some grippier wheels, replace the duff drive esc and possibly put some magnets at the back of the robot to compensate for the lack of weight over the wheels.