2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

[cliveb]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Grant/James any chance of all the placings from the first round being posted?

[xtreme]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Remember back when i said Tiny Toon was going to win? I was kinda right wasnt I ?

[cliveb]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Alex says bring on the spinners.

[xtreme]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Mines not working i cant what a shame. Not that im scared honest

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Hey Tom,

I looked over Drumroll closely this weekend, dunno why the power cut out after your hit but you've successfully bent the 15mm Hardox tooth :shock:

Not majorly but you can definetly see the warp in it - well done

Drumroll's good to go for the tag champs technically, but I'm gonna rebuild/strengthen a couple of areas on it. Not sure if it'll be brushless at the tag champs, its scary on quarter-power and already faster than the Speed 900s but the controller and motor get hot quite easily so gonna have to have some serious coolage in there to cope

[Kenny]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

hey, jamie with that brushless i gave you you will need around 7/1 reduction give ya around 6krpm then, because on 24v the motor will be doing 42,000rpm lol, the current gearing you have on it the drum will be going 10,500rpm would be cool but might be abit too fast

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Yeah I'll definetly need to up the ratio as the current 2.5:1 is too low for it. The most I can go however is 4.8:1 running at 19.2V as the smallest pulley is 10-tooth and its 48-tooth that's on the drum. Don't think I'll ever have it running at full speed as it could make driving almost impossible and the teeth probably just wouldn't engage.

Actually a quick calculation puts the top speed at 6600rpm not inlcuding friction losses etc on that 4.8:1 ratio so I might be able to crank it up full occasionally. Will certainly need to play about with/test it and find out what suits. Should make for interesting viewing though ( <- I got myself a new favourite emoticon)

[xtreme]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Bah! everyones going brushless. Soon ill be the only one left with a brushed motor spinner, Unless... Ummmm maybe next year eh?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Don't worry, if the Speed 900s leave Drumroll, I intend on connecting them up to some other form of spinning metal :twisted:

I think we can both testify to their effectiveness after last weekend

[xtreme]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Drumroll is a far superior machine, The fight shouldnt have gone the way it did.
After the tag champs i cant see there been much left of Savage Evo, Kenny and Mouldy are going to destroy everything in site i think.

[cliveb]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Did anybody film Tiny Toon v Ironside please?

[leorcc]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

4 speed 900s at 24v at 6-1 with 75mm wheels, that should be pretty nippy right?

That sounds like Omega.

[james...venom]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

does anybody have any pictures from the event?

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

Just got some of robots in the pits - not as many as I normally do, I put that down to videoing more this time though:

http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...champs%202009/

[xtreme]

Re: 2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

It is omega. now Relentless. Its too small. no room for a decent speedo.