Team Trouble - Build diary

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

following the uks draw giving me a refreshed interest in my spinner, tonight ive got it mostly wired up and driving about using a scropian xl. 18v drills are surprisingly nippy on only a 8.4 volt nimh pack. After i get payed next week ill be buying a pair of lipos and a charger etc etc - it'll run off 1 single 22 volt pack but thought itd be nice to have a spare

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

did a bit this morning, speedo mounted - when i bolt it down with m3's, link made and led mounted with a place for the reciever to sit.

pics

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things going well so far surprisingly

link holder seems really good and tight so jobs a gooden

getting a motor holder made for me at work next week too so more pics to follow...

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

and a pic of it from the front, the triangle bits of hardox are only really tacked on so don't judge!

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next major steps are getting the beater cut out which is being sorted by dave, and getting bearings put into the bulkheads- again something ill get done at work asap.

lipos gonna sit behind the motor aswell so space is gonna be tight but should make for a solid little robot hopefully.

all of thats about 7kg there, 3.5kg beater makes it 10.5kg, then throw in lipos and the top lid etc so it should be do-able, ill add more hardox to it if the weight allows.

[shakesc]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

interesting - is that one of those 24V kids scooter motors for the spinner drive?
Wondering how beefy they are in comparison to say a Speed 900

[Anttazz]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

I think the specs of that motor will be exceptionally similar to those of a speed 900, identical even :wink: . It even has the Speed 900 sticker written on it....

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

thats a speed 900

[shakesc]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

thats handy then

Looking good so far

[Anttazz]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

Awww, I wanted to see if he got it from what I said

[shakesc]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

Really, you don't say

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

It's coming on well Calum, although I think you've out-done me in terms of how tight things are inside
Are you still going for friction-drive wheels for when inverted?

Also, it's entirely optional, but it may be worth de-soldering the little green terminal blocks from the XL and soldering the power wires direct to the board. A few people have noted them being prone to breaking off from shock impacts, which could cost you a battle and some valuable points. If you work out what direction your motors turn when you press forward etc, you can solder direct from the XL to the motor terminals and remove another potential area of failure.

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

cheers jamie, and yeah i thought about that but they seem solid enough so i just thought about hot glue gunning them or something to be safe. Ive made the mounting for the speedo so its springy so itd reduce any shocks to hopefully

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

and yeah i was gonna have friction driven wheels, but i wana see if i spin the weapon up if it wud selfright it or not as i no before garys caught the floor and flipped boner back over

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

Coolio, hot glue should do a decent enough job as well.
Regarding Boner, the drum on that stuck out the top quite a bit, it wasn't exactly halfway between the top and bottom of the chassis (hence the old roll-hoops). Looking at your chassis, the beater shaft looks to be roughly halfway between the top and the bottom so your beater might not stick out enough to get a good bite to throw you back over. Depends if the belt ratio leaves enough torque too.
I could be wrong though, best way to find out will be to try it!

And if it doesn't work, you can always throw on some nice bits of white HDPE to roll you back over :wink:

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

if in doubt glue it :P!

yeah ill give it a go and then ill see what i can do, thinking that for the fights where i don't need em i could take the inverted wheels off mabye anyway.

get paid in 2 days then ill be buying lipos and a charger etc so that'll be my next step of mouting stuff inside the robot, interested to see how much faster it'll drive on 22 volts instead of just 8.4

[calumco]

Re: Team Trouble - Build diary

TS2 lives! Spent most of todayy finishing it. Didnt end up finishing it because i spent too much time playing and testing it out :P did a video that ill put up later and i managed to get some good hits on a 10kg chassis and a hand dryer aha. Tomorrow im makin the top lid outta 1.6 ti and theres the battery holders to finish, mount the weapon speedo and generally tidy it up 11.5 kg in that vid