Vertical or Horizontal?

[leorcc]

Vertical or Horizontal?

btw, with the Nebelwerfer - Pro-lodju fight, the very first hit we must have connected at exactly the very same split second to get that effect. If we did that a 100 times over we would probably not be able to reproduce it.

[dragonmaster_1]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Nightmare

[typhoon_driver]

Vertical or Horizontal?

I find that the wheels lifting off as I go around a corner isnt a major problem with hornet 2. My wheelbase is 750mm (enormous by featherweight standards) but the wheels only lift a maximum of 150mm into the air. It is still able to turn nicely as there is still a wheel in contact with the ground.

There is one other problem with a vertical though, you only have a very slim area with which to do damage and so your driving has to be tip top whereas a horizontal can have a huge area around the machine to do damage.

Its up to you, I think with featherweights verticals are more fun (waits for a whole lot of comments from the horizontals ) but thats just me.

[leorcc]

Vertical or Horizontal?

No i agree with you there Gary.

And the lift of the wheels is so low because your wheelbase is so wide which means you have more leaveradge down, thats why i prefer that as well.

[dragonmaster_1]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Must admit i do like verticals they put on a good show not only the sparks but the other robot flying through the air. If you want to see a horizontal that will be a b----- to drive my new one. motor is being ordered this week so should have it done for the champs

[Mouldy]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Hypno vs puddy cat = hypno (wont let me spell it right)
warhead vs nightmare = warhead
euro champ was a horizontal


To settle it ill have to go head on with hornet at full speed. If garys ok with that lol

[john]

Vertical or Horizontal?

both ways r good!

but garys a flipper and a spinner

[typhoon_driver]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Lol if im still running fine at the end of the featherweight champs then we can have a full on hit Dave

Thats of course making the assumption we dont come up against each other in the comp

[lex]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Fluffy vs 259 certainly went badly for the vertical spinner!

[Guest]

Vertical or Horizontal?

What about drums then?

[malivoirec]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Or you could just build one that could do both. EG. Strike terror

http://home.kendra.com/mauser/bot/http://home.kendra.com/mauser/bot/

[leorcc]

Vertical or Horizontal?

Drums can be quite successfull, but do tend to be a bit heavy and suffer the same drawbacks as verticals.

Plus side is that if they stop working they still make a good bumper.

[grant_ploughbot]

Vertical or Horizontal?

I like that strike terror - never seen it before but very interesting

[leorcc]

Vertical or Horizontal?

During the dutch wars series 2 we had something that tried the same as Strike Terror but failed. It was called vortex inducer if i remember correctly.

[typhoon_driver]

Vertical or Horizontal?

the mechanism would have to be tremendously strong to be effective. I cant see if being scaled down to a featherweight. You would have to have so much weight off the disc and in the supports etc that it seems somewhat pointless.