CO2 bottles

[team_mute]

Re: CO2 bottles

Thanks for answers, will be nice to see you guys again

We will try the standard bottles 1st, we can supply reams and reams of paper work to say that custom bottles are good but I'm not sure who would be able to say it was all ok and workmanship would be 1st class as always. We can make the bottles commercialy available but weither anyone could afford them would be a different story

Mute will still look the same, few little mods but will be the same bot

Mute is rust free, but also speedo and battery free at the moment :blush: so we are just sorting them.

[Anttazz]

Re: CO2 bottles

Team 101 were selling the single channel Roboteq speedos I think you were looking for Adam, was a long time ago but I don't remember reading that anyone had bought them, so could be a possibility if you don't want to have to import them from the US.

[jonny]

Re: CO2 bottles

They were a little weedy for heavyweights if I remember correctly.

[Anttazz]

Re: CO2 bottles

Just looked up the thread I saw them from and you're most probably right enough, LEMs would almost definitely cook them, need the fancier ones.

[team_mute]

Re: CO2 bottles

I think you can get roboteq's from Germany, Daniel knows more as I'm not good with electronics, but were are looking at the single channel ones, only ones that will fit inside Mutes side pods.

New bottles should be here next week and they are a little shorter than the old ones so might have some room inside Mute but need to fit the bottles 1st before we can decide on which speedo

[Gasbot]

Re: CO2 bottles

I've been looking at the Roboteq 3100BPS speedos, they're single channel and upto 120A. I did e-mail Roboteq about them a while back and got a reply saying that they should be ok but we would need to monitor the temperatures during testing. Assuming we heat sink them the same as our Dogsbollox controllers we should hopefully be ok... they never exploded, although we did manage to de-solder the main power & motor anderson connectors from the boards several times so hopefully temperature shouldn't be an issue...

Would love to fit a AX2550HE or similar but it would need significant surgery to the case to get it in, although with the new shorter bottles you never know. Just need to wait for these bottles to turn up now and hope they fit.

[robotwars]

Re: CO2 bottles

sounding good !!

[Gasbot]

Re: CO2 bottles

Gas system de-crudded
New bottles fitted
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Speedos on order
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New titanium nose cone fitted :twisted:

[robotwars]

Re: CO2 bottles

What speedos you getting ?

[Gasbot]

Re: CO2 bottles

MegaWotty seemed to have the best specs so we've gone for one of them.

Now just have to find somewhere to put it!

[blazerbotics]

Re: CO2 bottles

Mute for UK Champion! Is this where we ban 2 bottles of gas? :wink:

[team_mute]

Re: CO2 bottles

Thats ok one of the bottles is a buffer tank :wink:

[robotwars]

Re: CO2 bottles

I'm ready to defend the title !! :-)

[Gasbot]

Re: CO2 bottles

Might be a while before Mute is competitive again, we've gotta remember how to drive it again. I just hope everything don't go up in a ball of flame... then could of Co2 gas when we first switch it back on again.

Last time I armed Mute with gas for the first time it put the fear of god into me! Any one want to volunteer? Promise that you wont loose all of your arm... Ok maybe I won't promise...

[blazerbotics]

Re: CO2 bottles

Wimp! Still have to gas it up by lifting the flipper?