How could I Improve pt 2

[neontetra23]

How could I Improve pt 2

6WD
3MM GC
4MM Ti armour

[majinb]

How could I Improve pt 2

quote:

Hold everything Martijn...isnt that conflicting with what AJ said about Chaos 2, Tornado and Storm 2?

no it is not, ALL 3 turn on the spot, only Chaos 2 does so with less friction and therefor more smoothly, and quicker if all 3 would have the same motors and gearing

EDIT: as a matter of fact, both AJ AND me are completely right in their posts, all variants can turn on the spot, 2WD does so with more agility/quicker, 6WD does so more slowly and with lotsa friction

(Message edited by MajinB on July 29, 200

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

Provided the motors and gearing can conquer the friction of the wheels you can. What most 6wd robots do is make the middle pair of wheels a few mm larger so it eases the turning.

[majinb]

How could I Improve pt 2

6WD are pushers most of the time, if your motors cant even conquer that friction it wouldnt be much of a pusher

but yes, youre right, but am I right in thinking that with larger wheels in the middle youre traction will decrease?

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

Not really no.

You say it wouldnt be much of a pusher, but have you ever thought about the amount of battery power you waste just by trying to turn on a 6wd robot?

[neontetra23]

How could I Improve pt 2

4wd should be a good compromise

revised stats:

Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control

[neontetra23]

How could I Improve pt 2

OOPS! made a mistake


Name: Robo-Platypus
Shape: A Box with a flipper at the front
Colour: Red with a picture of a platypus on top facing the rear, the tail covers the flipper
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Drive: 2 C40-300 Magmotors @ 36V
Power: 6 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 Wheels that just poke through the top and bottom of the robot
Ground Clearance: 3MM, 0 at the front of the flipper
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 100X65X25
Weaponry: A rear-hinged flipper powered by a 80X100 ram at 750 PSI, powered by a 2.5KG Co2 tank, the flipper also has a built-in front-hinged flipper powered by an identical ram and runs off an identical Co2 tank , the first flipper is 40X30X1 and the other is 20X15X1 and is exactly in the middle of the other flipper
Srimech: Invertable and the flipper can right it
Strengths: Powerful flippers, Fast, Invertable, Unique weapon
Weaknesses: May be hard to control


Seeing as Robo-Platypus was such a success here€™s....


Robo-Aardvark
Name: Robo-Aardvark
Shape: A box with sloped sides (that does not include the front and back)
Colour: Light blue with the picture of an aardvark on the top
Speed: 10MPH
Weight: 100KG
Armour: 4MM Titanium
Motors: 2 Team Wyachi TWM3s @ 36V
Power: 7 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: 4 wheels with a vulkalon coating
Ground Clearance: 4MM
Turning Circle: 0
Size: 90X55X45
Weaponry: 1) A Rear hinged flipper powered by 2 80X140 pneumatic rams running of a 3KG tank
2) A 20KG vertical fly wheel running at 2500RPM inside the flipper
powered by a perm 132, it has 16 2CM teeth
Srimech: the flipper
Strengths: Powerful weapons, Weapons synergy, Both weapons able to perform OOTA€™S
Weaknesses: Thin armour, Quite slow

[davids]

How could I Improve pt 2

Ben, is there much point in having 2 flipper systems on your machine?

I would scrap the forward hinged system and put the weight saved to better use (for example the 4mm titanium armour)

And 3mm ground clearance is too low

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

One flip and you will rip your own flipperarm off

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

Paul, I didnt want to say this in Kodys tournament but Nitrogen is not filled on weight but on pressure. So 2x 1,5kg Nitrogen makes no sense. Under FRA rules (and I hope you guys use those pneumatic rules because the RFL rules are lethal, Im amazed no one died there yet) the main bottles are only allowed a maximum of 1000psi.

CO2 is liquid inside the bottles, and therefore those are weighed since pressure is too variable.

[paulc]

How could I Improve pt 2

I wasnt aware you weigh Nitrogen based on pressure. If so, its at 1000psi.

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

You still need to lower the pressure you can exert through, or elsequote:

One flip and you will rip your own flipperarm off

[paulc]

How could I Improve pt 2

The force of flips are now 1300kg at the tips.

(Message edited by paulc on July 31, 200

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

I guess thats alright...

Leo, how many rams do some of the flippers nowadays (Iron Awe 5, Dantomkia, Bigger Brother) use? 1 or 2?

[paulc]

How could I Improve pt 2

They use one.