Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

[stu]

FeatherWeights.org is the official FRA site - a separate site which focuses more on Featherweights inside the FRA plus more. It has created a little home for Featherweights, with an online Database of most of the Featherweights around. Also Technical Help posted by other featherweight roboteers and FeatherWeights.org them selves in places people need info when building and maintaining their featherweight. Also a run down of the events that featherweights can attend and more.

Check it out at http://www.FeatherWeights.orghttp://www.FeatherWeights.org - submit ya featherweight to the database - then get building and fighting

Regards,
FeatherWeights.org Crew
Stu B, Ed M, Jas H
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[chris]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

i like the logos and graphics

[adamc]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

Are there any rules posted anywhere for feathers and middleweights? It might be well worth ensuring that the current RW set is posted up somewhere and set in stone, or perhaps we could have a few pounds on the UK limit to bring it line with the 30lb limit.

[ewan]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

Oh, we all could do with a bit more weight limit
There arent any actual rules I know about JUST for featherweights, Mostly we share the heavies rules exept we dont need power Leds etc.
Just email Stu and talk to the FRA, they could then change the rules, depending on what most people want. Cheers, Ewan

[shredderteam]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

The FRA build rules do actually include Feathers and Middleweights..
There doesnt really seem to be any need to write individual rules for every weight, would just over complicate matters in most cases.

Thats unless the weight of opinion starts to lean towards them needing their own rule sets obviously? In which case Im sure the FRA will be happy to have a look into it..

Sam
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[robotwars]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

After the first development of the new breed of featherweights last year, there was little mumble from roboteers, about upping the feather weight limit because people were finding it hard.

However I was strongly against it, feather weights wouldn€™t be feather weights if they weren€™t 12kg.

People have now persevered to get the weight down, and we have low pressure flippers, high pressure flippers, crushers and spinners, all in the weight limit, why change it.

JOnno

[Guest]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

I think that it all part of the game be it feathers or heavies getting on the weight

[storm]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

I dont see any need to change the weight limit. There are lots of VERY effective robots easily built within the 12Kg limit. I dont think that 12Kg is a limit thats preventing anyone from building any particular type of robot - yes it can be challenging, but I dont see it as limiting anything.

Ed
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[ewan]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

I think that the challenge is good, but that you should be able to give abit at an event. (like if a team has brought a robot, fully expecting it to be underweight, that they can have about 200 grams of give in the rules)
Cheers, Ewan

[stu]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

There is a little give at events Ewan.
But sorry you took the **** at FWSmash2003 i was told
Roaming Robots, FeatherWeights.org both give a little which is 200g. Its in the rules for Robot Wars that a Heavy Weight has to be 100kg and no more. But allow a 1% scale error which gives them 101kg true weight limit. 1% for 12g is 12.125kg , but we round it up to 12.2kg as its an easy number. (And Jonnos scales only go to 2dp) hehe.

12kg is the limit for Feather Weights. Like Ed said, it is a challenge, but thats part of building the robots.

The extra 1.6kg to make it ti 30lb (13.6kg), thats a 24v Nicad 3000 pack. Thats a Mag motor. Thats a 600g Co2 bottle, thats about 2mm worth of Ti all over a feather weight.
Think Feather Weights need to stay at 12kg.

Mr Stu

[ewan]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

All good
(had to take the main weapon blades off at FWS 2003)

[jamesb]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

I know the feeling,
had to take loads off Tantrum to get into RW7, which was weird as it was 12.2 when I left wrexham.

with all the messing about, and taking teeth off, when I weighed it at home after, it was 11.6kg. Its that local gravity thing, Im sure.... well, either that or my scales are lying.... hey, that explains everything, cancel the bulk order of slimfast, its the scaless fault Im a tad portly

on a serious not, if feathers are too light, build a lightweight... end of my thoughts on the matter.

[team_ireland]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

My opinion is that if you increase the weight limit then its just as much of a challange to build a robot in that weight limit. Even though heavyweights have 100kg to play with not the 12kgs of a feather its equally as hard to get a heavyweight underweight as it is to get a featherweight underweight.

You see if we increase the weight limit that means that people will want to use bigger bore rams to flip the heavier weight the same height so all that extra weight is gone and your still struggeling to fit it into the weight class.

Others will stick extra armour on. The spinners then stick on a heavier disk so they can get through the extra armour. Pushers up grade their motors so they can push everythign still. It just goes on and on and on and you are still struggling to get the robot under the weight limit.

12kg is a fine weight limit. Why change it? As they say if its not broken dont fix it!

Regards
Ian

[Guest]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

Gravity does not exist. The earth sucks

[ewe2]

Official FRA Featherweight Site - FeatherWeights.org

Jonno,

there was little mumble from roboteers, about upping the feather weight limit because people were finding it hard.

Who could you possibly be talking about?

Ian
Cutlet540 in weight now!