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Sorry for the lack of updates
The battle took place and I got beaten by my fellow university classmates in both battles that I had. A long story short is that I went through 7 electronic speed controllers by blowing them up, I asked numerous lecturers and classmates about my wiring and they said that it all seemed fine I think it was just down to how cheap they were. Because of this I had to revert to using my mechanical speed controllers as mentioned earlier in the thread. I used carbon brushes as contacts to the circuit boards and I really wish I hadn't because they got so hot that they caused my servo to melt during the battles which meant that for both fights my robot ran for about 15 seconds before both wheels stopped moving.
In other news I'm planning on building another robot and now I'll be on my own time scale and I won't have to rush to get it build in 2 months.
Sorry for the lack of updates
The battle took place and I got beaten by my fellow university classmates in both battles that I had. A long story short is that I went through 7 electronic speed controllers by blowing them up, I asked numerous lecturers and classmates about my wiring and they said that it all seemed fine I think it was just down to how cheap they were. Because of this I had to revert to using my mechanical speed controllers as mentioned earlier in the thread. I used carbon brushes as contacts to the circuit boards and I really wish I hadn't because they got so hot that they caused my servo to melt during the battles which meant that for both fights my robot ran for about 15 seconds before both wheels stopped moving.
In other news I'm planning on building another robot and now I'll be on my own time scale and I won't have to rush to get it build in 2 months.
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