Cicatrix Build Diary

[Anttazz]

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Yeah, it was running to a certain extent, I didn't really have any control because the current limiter was cutting in whenever I moved the stick. It wasn't quite as visible on the bench but as soon as the wheels had weight on them it was really bad. I had just assumed that the drills were using too much current and that was what was causing it but now that the XL seems fine with 2 drills and the XXL really struggle I am thinking it might be otherwise.

I'm thinking sending it away for a once over would be the best option.

How would I get in contact with him? Just through the forum or is there some other way?

[rick_maas]

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Hi there,

David Moulds pointed this topic to me, you can contact me at rick at team-rcc . org
If you could send me an email which problem you have and the things you already tried then I€™ll have a look tomorrow.

[Anttazz]

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Cheers Rick (and David), I will write down a list and get it emailed off to you.

[Anttazz]

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Well, XXL is on route back home from the Netherlands with a new control chip and some reprogramming, hopefully that will fix it.

I'll get it all installed and test it on whichever pod it came out of (can't remember now, its been a while since I looked ) then if all is well I might try it on all 4 motors. Hopefully that will solve all the control problems we've had over the past few events.

Next on the agenda will possibly be either Eric or Daiske II, depending on when Mr McHarg is free, as my team mate will be returning from Japan in the next few weeks then the 4 of us can get the old boy going again. As for the hydraulics, prepare to be bombarded with questions....

[RogueTwoRobots]

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My mate's birthday gig is this weekend and then next weekend will probably be spent sorting out my shed so say about two weeks?
Will be good to get back into a bit of bot work at least - it's been very quiet build-wise at RogueTwo Towers lately. The break's been nice but my fingers are getting itchy

[psycho_fling]

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you should see your doctor about that jamie :P

[Anttazz]

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Sounds good man, i'll run it by him when he gets home. He's hard enough to get hold of in this country nevermind in Japan... I think we may have a show booked on the saturday evening of that weekend but that will be at night, obviously, so if its a 1 day effort we're going to aim for then that would be fine, you'd be welcome to crash here of course, but if we're working an 80th birthday party the eye candy might be a bit boring for you

Been pretty quite for me too, frustrating that a lot of things need done but for Cicatrix its just a case of waiting for the ESC to come back, Eric Jr needs gas, Daiske II i'm leaving to Colin/Jamie S and the heavies i'm waiting for all four of us to get together and get going on them. The one thing I have done though is put Eric in a place in the garage where people cant see him until they're walking away from the front door and he looks like some sort of Hippy Guard Dog, the look on their faces makes this game all worth while

Also forgot to add, I ordered a FrSky 40MHz - 2.4GHz conversion kit and receiver yesterday evening so i'll get that done in time for Eric's rewiring.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Well if I come up that weekend and stay over, I'm more than happy to help out with your event. Not too fussed about a lack of eye candy, just glad I'm not that old yet
Nice one with the conversion kit, I think links to the wiring pictures/threads are kicking about on the forum somewhere but if you can't find them/need them, just shout and I'll post them. It's pretty straightforward though, so much so that even the appalling translation of instructions from Chinese to English can't throw you too much!

[Anttazz]

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Nice one man . I'll find out what/where it is and see what would be best, it'll just show you exactly how little I do to get paid . Colin and I have had some bad experiences with the eye candy at some of these events, it was quite funny really though. Shall we say it involved a ladies 50th birthday speech, her MOTHERS white dress and our UV lights :shock: .

Cheers for that, I think there is a link to them on the Giant Cod site but if not i'll have a dig around the forum for them and if worst comes to worst i'll get you to send me them. I'll look for them in Japanese and see if Colins year in Tokyo has taught him anything

[Anttazz]

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Right, got the FrSky gear delivered today but when I took the radio to bits I think I maybe have discovered a problem.

Read some reviews etc on it and how to guides and just couldn't find the board they were talking about. So, looked up a video and Jamie's guide on here and saw the that board appears to be attached to the trainer port. Here lies the problem...





Looks almost like the board has been changed in favour of some other sort of trainer connector? Whatever it is, I have been thoroughly confused by it, hopefully someone can enlighten me.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Just a very quick reply as I'm heading out shortly.
That's a bit different from what I expected, which is then confusing relating to the instructions. But the conversion should still be possible. The connections you solder on to on the trainer port circuit board should be able to be traced back to a point on the main circuit board inside the controller, so if you can find them, you should just be able to solder direct to them. The only difference is that you are interrupting the wires at a different point than you would be if you soldered to the trainer board, but that won't have any effect on the functionality of the conversion kit.

It's a Field Force 6 yeah? I'll try and get a picture of the connection points to the main board in my transmitter later on and post it up.

[Anttazz]

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Yeah it is a Field Force 6 Jamie, it did make the instructions rather confusing. That would be great, cheers .

[blazerbotics]

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Looks like they've rewired the trainer connector to be used for a external weapon switch (so somebody else fires the weapons). Conversion is still possible just harder to find the connection points.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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No problemo; been busy the past couple of weekends living life like a student again, but got a day off tomorrow (woohoo) so will get that sorted

[Anttazz]

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No hurry really, have plenty of other radio sets to do testing with .