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Double Trouble was great! Well driven and always great to see a saw blade on the front of a robot, don't often get ones like that these days!
As a standard setup, Saturn-16s with 775 motors, TZ85 speed controllers and a 5 Cell Lipo battery would cover any sort of power requirements - robots like Legion use this setup and are quick! I'd advise against running 6 Cells still because the motors are 18v, 6 Cell lipos are 22.2v and the motors don't seem to like that for too long. A set of those and 4" wheels would be an excellent drive train. The motors and speed controllers are both available from Ranglebox.com (Ellis should have me on commission at this point...) and the batteries should be available from hobbyking.com. I would recommend reading up on lipos before investing though, since they can be dangerous if not used correctly.
Wheels are a tad trickier and may be a custom job, though there's people on this forum that make things like that for reasonable prices
Of course help is always to hand too if ever you need it on this forum - despite the fact that we actually fight each other every weekend or so, we are actually a kind and helpful bunch haha
Best of luck with the build!
As a standard setup, Saturn-16s with 775 motors, TZ85 speed controllers and a 5 Cell Lipo battery would cover any sort of power requirements - robots like Legion use this setup and are quick! I'd advise against running 6 Cells still because the motors are 18v, 6 Cell lipos are 22.2v and the motors don't seem to like that for too long. A set of those and 4" wheels would be an excellent drive train. The motors and speed controllers are both available from Ranglebox.com (Ellis should have me on commission at this point...) and the batteries should be available from hobbyking.com. I would recommend reading up on lipos before investing though, since they can be dangerous if not used correctly.
Wheels are a tad trickier and may be a custom job, though there's people on this forum that make things like that for reasonable prices
Of course help is always to hand too if ever you need it on this forum - despite the fact that we actually fight each other every weekend or so, we are actually a kind and helpful bunch haha
Best of luck with the build!
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