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Dreakoth
Joined: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 46
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First lets tell the story of my trip to melbourne (the robot building part, not the getting drunk and being mentally scared part)
So first day in melbourne, thursday night.
I realise that my rame has too much stroke and my axe will either always be lifting the rear of my bot up, or when fired it will lift the front up, this is bad as it meants im permanently tractionless. To fix this i decided to get a new ram on friday. i spent the rest of the night pulling everything apart.
Friday came, i went to norgren, brought a new ram and some fittings, Spent the day hunting down a welder and getting co2 ect, rewelded the mounting brackets for the ram, forgot to get new bolts to mount the ram with, being M10 x 1.25 (i think) the fine thread, i was hardpressed to find some at 6pm friday.
Fred pulls through and goes out at 8:00 saturday the mornign of the comp. to get my bolts, leaving me to rebuild my bot from the ground up, make and start mounting the armour ect, Fred gets back around 10ish to pick us up and take us to the event, getting there soon after i mount my new ram for the first time, plumb the gas lines while Fred popriveted the armour on. First test fire midway through round one cracked the welds on the rack, so last minute welding was done thanks to gary. Getting it into the ring for the first time it held up great against SS Rat, im so happy i made it through the fight problem free, minus the rack slipping and me having the drive reverse the whole match.
To continue the other side of the speedo killing story of macks (read the start in sunshines thread), Before we flew over, one side of one hbridge was fried in the speedo mack lent me, so we went to jasons to fix it along with macks other one which he fried due to my lipo pack. After we got the two ibc's from jason, one went into savager, this one was working fine day 1 and fine the afternoon back at the apartment we were staying at, i thought i had issues with the weapon, which was due to a broken wire on the solenoid.
The next day i was up against puncturer if memory serves, so i did some prefight tests, and low and behold nothing happened, the ibc and rx lights came on but nothing would respond, after last minute radio transplants (to macks spectrum) that still didnt help i borrowed andrews spare IBC and threw it in as they were calling be to fight. It was alright untill i took some hits and some erratic driving threw off the weapon cable then unstuck the small amount of ducktape i was able to apply to hold the ibc in place, this caused it to short on my frame and immobalised me.
So along with the electrics dying day two i was happy with savagers performance, the problems i was having with the weapon were due to the rack slipping on the sprocket, i was planning on welding a support in place to help carry the rack but i never got time. Ill fix it up next chance i get and do some weapon tests, then its onto a major redesign to get it smaller and lighter to allow for some armour.
I'd like to clarify some rules / judging tho:
If im running pnuematics and run out of gas, does that count as a weapon failing and gives the opponent points for damage?
I think this would be unfair as it had nothing to do with them being better then me its just a limitation of my robot, and if anything they already get the benefit of me not having any weapon power to hit them with.
Either way i thinks its something that needs to be clarified.
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Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:41 pm |
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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as far as I understand the current rules, yes.
a weapon (or drive component) that begins the fight functioning, and ends the fight non functioning (for whatever reason) is considered significant damage, regardless of the reason it stops functioning.
Self inflicted damage, broken activation triggers, running out of battery power, gas, or fuel is all irrelevant - it stopped working during the fight, so its damage.
You need to design your pneumatics so they have sufficient gas resevoir, or ration your attempted flips throughout the fight. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:30 am |
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