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[Guest]

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If Steve did have chameleon Ill rename it, and what I mean is there are removal armour panels over the wheels

[joey_picus]

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But you said it had tracks...

[Guest]

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Sorry, having a slow day today, I meant tracks

[joey_picus]

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Interceptor: http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=chevhw&action=display&thread=158&p age=1http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...isplay&thread= 158&page=1

This is not so much an is it in weight/realistic post as it is how could I make it more effective since Ive looked at it and it...doesnt look that good, to be honest.
So, how could I make it more effective?

[samuel3764]

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Blood Eagle

Weight: 100kg
Shape: A very low wedge with side skirts
Dimensions: 94cm X 75cm X 42cm with the beak closed, and 94 X 75 X 60 if raised
Armour: 7mm Titanium
Power: 2 X 24V S28-400s powered by 4 24V NiCad BattlePacks
Wheels: 2 X vulkalon rubber tyres
Top Speed: 19 mph
Ground Clearence: 0mm on the front and sides due to Firestorm-like blade and side skirts and 2.1mm on the back
Turning Circle: Yup, its zero.
Weapons: A very nasty, diamond edged crushing beak (ala Razer) powered by a Vivoil Hydraulic Pump, with 3800PSI of force. There is also several Mute-style barbs to trap other robots while crushing them.
Srimech: Razer-Style Arms on sides powered by steel cables and rounded back to stop it from getting beached.
Strengths: Extremely Fast Srimech, Devastating and Lethal Weapon, Almost Impossible to get underneath, Good Traction
Weaknesses: None- Almost Invincible

OK, so.... is there anything wrong with THIS?

[Guest]

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I think current rules dont permit hydraulics over 3000psi, also how much clearance is behind the skirts? 2.1mm seems too little to me, it should be about 5mm at least. And what powers the srimech? Steel cables is a bit vague.

It looks a lot like the latest incarnatoin of Clawdius, and it wont be popular with tournament writers for saying its almost invincible

(Message edited by Robot_Warrior on May 27, 200

[joey_picus]

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Ground clearance is a little low, its not outrageously bad but it could do with being higher a bit, and the force on the crusher could be stated better - possibly in tonnes rather than PSI (Razer had 9 tonnes at the ram and 3 tonnes at the tip of the arm from 3000psi hydraulic pressure for reference). Otherwise good, doesnt look particuarly overweight although Id disagree with it being almost invincible :P

Cables I think worked in Razer because they were fastened to somewhere within the body and were stretched tight when the arm was raised to its maximum height.

(Message edited by joeychevron on May 27, 200

[leorcc]

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Thats exactly right Joey.

[Guest]

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Also, am I right in thinking the self-righting wouldnt be xtremely fast if its the same system as Razer, beacuse Razer was comparatively slow

[tacoman]

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Can someone look over this (hopefully less sucky) revamp of Lethal Injection. (And yes, I know the name is a redundancy)

Lethal Execution
Shape: Box, with the Tornado style angled back.
Colour: Silver, With the words LETHAL EXECUTION painted on the top, in blood red painted that looks like splattered blood
Weight: 100kgs
Dimensions: 105X60X25CM
Speed: 18mph
Turning Circle: 0mm
Armour: 7mm Titanium
Ground Clearance: 7mm at the front, and below the hinged skirts and the back and sides, 0mm with skirts
Movement: Six Aluminium wheels with Vulkanon tires. They are protected from the side by the armour, but are vulnerable from the top . They are powered by 2 B42-500 Magmotors at 48 volt, with 4 NiCad battlepacks.
Weapons: Interchangable weapons.
Setup One: Two Hardox lifting spikes powered by a linear actuator. They are very similar to Panic Attacks lifting spikes, and can be moved 90 degrees in either direction, meaning they work inverted.
Setup Two: A vertical crushing jaw, made of Hardox and diamond-tipped. Its powered by hydraulics at 1500PSI. At the tip it has 2.5 tonnes of force and at the ram it has 5 tonnes.
Setup Three:
A hardox spinning drum with two thick teeth, with a diameter of 30cm powered by a couple of LEM 130s. It runnes at 2000rpm and deals out 70kjs of kinetic energy. Its designed to flip as it bashes Because this set-up is un-invertable, it has semi-sperical wheel coverings. These are made of 3mm Hardox, and are near-unpenetratable by axes. There is also almost 10cm of clearence between the highest part of the coverings and the actual wheels, so even if the axe does poke through, it will probably not hurt the wheels themselves.
Scrimech: Invertable with the first two set-ups, none with the spinning drum.

[joey_picus]

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No real problems, you could do a Drumroll and put self righting hoops on it for the third setup, but thats just a suggestion.

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Yay, my robot got a mention!

[Guest]

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Hows this arena?

The Bermuda Triangle

An equilateral triangle, each wall is 20m long, not sure how many m2 that is. In the centre of the arena there are three 1 x 1m2 floor panels that shoot upwards, powered by 3 x 100m nitrogen ram at 1000psi. They are arranged in a triagular fashion and designed to throw robots high, not far. There is a pit, in the centre of the bottom wall, 3 x 3m2, opened by the release button, which is at the top point. The floor is 20mm plywood, and the walls 15mm hardox, just 60cm high. There is also a flame pit in the bottom left point and two killsaws in the bottom right point.

Possibly the arena that will used in RS!!3

[kodster]

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quote:

The floor is 20mm plywood

I can see quite a few holes in the floor then.

Other than that, jolly good.

[Guest]

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What would you recommend for the floor?
Right now I have images of SGO getting stuck and then destroyed by something Paul entered:wink: