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[kodster]

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Too many motors.

[corsair_lightning]

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Any suggestions?

Kody, do I have your respect now?

[joey_picus]

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You dont really need more than two motors unless youre doing a rammer...if you lose two motors, you could use a third S28-400 for the blade, or something similar...I still dont get how it selfrights though.

[kodster]

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quote:

Kody, do I have your respect now?

Im not going to grace that with an answer. :P

EDIT: Joey, hes probably talking about gyroscopics, which, at that speed, will cause his blade to come flying off. Either that or hell be bouncing all over the place the entire match. :P

(Message edited by kodster on May 01, 200

[corsair_lightning]

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Note: Ill be bouncing all over the place if I get flipped, and once I land on my wheels, I wont bounce everywhere until get flipped again, which is very unlikely due to my skirts.

[joey_picus]

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Wont these skirts hinder your self righting if thats the case?

And gyroscopic forces have always been a bit of a mystic art to me...the only thing I can think of is Mauler, and that was an off balance object rotating. If a balanced object (the blade) is spinning, wont it just stay perfectly still on its head?

[corsair_lightning]

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No.

If you watch the Redrum vs Tornado Mer fight on youtube, Tornado Mer was flipped, and self-righted due to the fact that no spinner ever lands perfectly upside-down.

[joey_picus]

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Wont a spinner with that much energy kill itself if it hits the floor at full whack, shock proofing or no shock proofing? TM allegedly was defeated by the arena walls quite reguarly, and I think its safe to say it didnt have 138kj...

[corsair_lightning]

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i Dont know.

[leorcc]

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Probably.

[craig_anto]

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Rotating Mass vs Unmovable Object

my money will always be on the unmovable object, if that happened in the rebel robots arena youd have no weapon or weapon motor left

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Seems the best place to post this without starting a new thread:

How popular are featherweight vapourbots in here? In other words, how many of you have at least one featherweight robot? As I fancy trying my hand a writing a small tournament, just to see how I get on and since I compete in feather events I have a better idea of what can and cant be done, and what impacts the machines (and their weapons) will have on the others (more so than I do with heavies)

If there is enough interest (and after my exams, so end of May/beginning of June) I may look at starting a small 8-robot featherweight vapourbot tourney (will probably allow realies but only if its entered by the person who built it) so if anyone fancies competing and doesnt have a feather, get designing!

(And of course if anyone is unsure of what components are popular/effective in feathers, there are plenty of people around here who can point you in the right direction )

[kodster]

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Featherweight vapourbots definitely arent as popular as heavyweight vapourbots, Ill tell you that. I myself do have a featherweight vapour (that old robot I had planned to build, but scrapped quickly due to mistaking the weight :P)

Micro-Gore def needs more playtime, so I will be happy to join this upcoming tournament of yours.

[joey_picus]

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Id be interested I do plan on bulding my own featherweight someday, so itd be a good source of information.

[Guest]

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LOL, I made my own FW vapour this morning!
Id enter Jamie!
Ill post it and my new HW vapour for checking over later, as I feel theyre both probably overweight... Just need to finish the HW one and Ill post them together.

(Message edited by Robot_Warrior on May 04, 200