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[joey_picus]

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A few of the dont have front and/or rear armour Good bots though, no problems I can really see.

[Guest]

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Thanks Joey

[Guest]

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I was wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are of using E-Teks?

[joey_picus]

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You get a lot of power, but they weigh something like 11kgs each, and unless you have a superheavyweight or are using them for weapon drive youll never get to use the full power...Craigs the expert though, hed probably be able to elaborate a bit.

[leorcc]

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The only thing i can see is the El Media Diablo will be overweight. There is no way you can get that package small enough to have such a flipper and magmotors and Hardox and a 3kg bottle in 50kg.

(Message edited by leo-rcc on April 27, 200

[kodster]

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Leos right. Expand the dimensions please.

And I must say, congrats for becoming an Elite, Leo.

[leorcc]

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Its about time I got that status.

[Guest]

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What could I do to get El Media Diablo to lose weight (apart from go on a diet

[joey_picus]

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You could reduce the gas capacity a bit - I dont think you really need more than 15 flips unless youre in something like the BB arena and it goes the full distance - and/or swap the Hardox on everywhere except the front for titanium, that might do it without losing too much protection. Personally, it actually looks in weight to me, but Id err on the side of caution anyways.

[Guest]

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If you were to power a 25kg spinning bar (100 x 15) with 2 x E-teks at 48v, what would be the Kj output? Ive no idea with E-Teks so I dont know.

[craig_anto]

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Eteks are not worth the hassle, you have to get a controller to run reliably with them, and thats not something that happens in the robot world, Eteks need a 300Amp controller which I could never get working reliably so i switched to a different controller which gave me much more sucsess, beat KO, THz, Kronic, Turb Iron Awe and Tiberius to name a few however the controlablity was a sacrifice on power, since Sept 2005 it never ran on 300Amp so it always ran at about 1/4 power and since 2004 it only ran 24v

El Media Diablo, you can fit 2x 1.2(?)Kg bottles but not a 3kg one, dump the hardox for 3mm titanium and get up to 24v under volted motors just stall when put under load, with ur specs and these changes i reckon i could make that within 50kg so i think thats fine

[Guest]

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Thanks a lot Craig
I wanted to use E-teks to try and get a spinning weapon that would rip up the other vapours, so now the search goes on...
Hey, what about the same bar, powered by 2 x B42-500s at 60v?

[craig_anto]

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for a spinner theyre fine, they just use solenoid controllers, so stick with them for a weapon but NOT for drive your wasting ur timea nd just use the 1 2 is a waste of weight, using eteks in a robot is like sitting in a shower tearing up £5 notes, after both u end up miserable and out of pocket and wishing ud invested in something better like lems or a spa

[joey_picus]

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...how would you drive a robot with a spa?

[Guest]

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So do you have any idea about the Kj output, or how I could estimate it?