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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I'm with colin.. I want to see the 12Kg limit tightened up, not relaxed.
Sorry for all you guys who are having trouble building to the weight limit, but if gary can build bots over a meter on a side that are still 12.99 legal (and in most cases, even 12.2 legal, which is the international standard), then surely you can too..
Even Tim with his indestructible 4WD steel brick managed to get it all under the weight limit.
I know some of you guys start building first and weigh later, but if you start asking for extra kilo's now, are you going to be happy to face the nasty spinners like Basilisk and Annihlation when they use the extra weight to pack in even more power ?
If you cant build to 12Kg, then build a lightweight (25Kg) non spinner. You wont have too many people to fight to start with, but at least the existing arena's should have a chance of coping with non spinner 25Kg bots.
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Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:50 pm |
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Ajax
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 298
Location: Sydney
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'mytqik' & 'Nick' have very good points and realy should be followed.
first rule of robot building, lay out every thing that is to go into your bot.
Second rule of robot building,Weight everything that will go into your bot before assembly, to confirm weight.
I bought a set of 3Kg scales, and I'm weighing every thing and putting it in to a database for future referance. And I mean every thing, Nuts Bolts, Washers, wheels, Motors, Batteries, etc.
Then I place exatly what is going in to the bot into a BOM (bill of materials)
and the weight is calculated.
Also I am designing every thing In SolidWorks. (Will be changing to Inventor soon) making a complete assembly drawing with every thing in it's place.
In cluding the Electronics. (I do mean the wires as well.)
So when it is being assembled, I am not going to get any surprisses.
This is a little over board, But the weighing of all the parts before assembly is a definent to do item before starting. _________________ It's all about the destruction.
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Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:22 am |
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