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by bigsi111
Thu Oct 20, 2016 9:41 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Antweight World Series 51 - Peasedown St. John, 29th October 2016
Replies: 36
Views: 38930

Re: Antweight World Series 51 - Peasedown St. John, 29th October 2016

Team DieSexy saadly can't make this as I'm a Rugby Ref and I have a match to officiate that day.

Best of luck to eveyone!
by bigsi111
Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:34 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Antweight open 12th November 2016
Replies: 71
Views: 101132

Re: AWS/Antweight open 12th November 2016

Basingstoke will be nice, hopefully won't lock my keys in my car again...
by bigsi111
Sun Aug 07, 2016 7:28 am
Forum: Antweights
Topic: ESC and Micro Motor Question
Replies: 7
Views: 12420

Re: ESC and Micro Motor Question

EpicentrE wrote:What are those ESCs, if you don't mind me asking?
These are the ones, I have others ordered which I hope will be smaller and will report on this thread when they arrive

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191904374955? ... EBIDX%3AIT
by bigsi111
Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:05 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: ESC and Micro Motor Question
Replies: 7
Views: 12420

Re: ESC and Micro Motor Question

For some perverse reason it amuses me that you have a power switch as well as each ESC having its own little power switch. My robots go the other way and have no switches at all...I like systems like this though, I think as good as Rory's kits are (and I'm going to be getting more soon!), it's not ...
by bigsi111
Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:57 am
Forum: Antweights
Topic: ESC and Micro Motor Question
Replies: 7
Views: 12420

Re: ESC and Micro Motor Question

Okay, I've now got duel ESC's working with a programmable break, but because I haven't got a mixer I'm have to use the right and left sticks. Here's a a few photos of what I've done. Now in no way am I recommending this route. With the kit Rory has you can do this so much better, lighter and smaller...
by bigsi111
Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:06 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Bot Building Questions!
Replies: 35
Views: 27014

Re: Bot Building Questions!

Hogi wrote:I too would quite like to know the answer to the ti cutting question. I thought it was one of those things that required specialist equipment but I would be interested to know if there was a cheaper tool that would be up to the job.
Tin snips can cut through 1mm titanium without any difficulty
by bigsi111
Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:14 am
Forum: Antweights
Topic: ESC and Micro Motor Question
Replies: 7
Views: 12420

Re: ESC and Micro Motor Question

Shakey wrote:That is indeed the 'brake' on the ESC.
Thanks. I love trial and error. Off to buy some new ESC without brakes!!!

Once I'm done doing all this, I will write am idiots guide - should be easy given I'm a ... ;-)
by bigsi111
Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:18 am
Forum: Antweights
Topic: ESC and Micro Motor Question
Replies: 7
Views: 12420

ESC and Micro Motor Question

Hi Everyone Despite having one of Rory's brilliant t kits I'm also trying to figure things out for myself and have hit a snag. I have a brushed micro motor and brushed ESC with a brake through a Lemon RX I've bound to a Blade Heli Controller Spektrum MLP4DSM DSMX. My problem is that if I want to rev...
by bigsi111
Sun Jul 31, 2016 8:42 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Knappster's monstrosities!
Replies: 14
Views: 11985

Re: Knappster's monstrosities!

Lovely bot, you've obviously really thought out the chassis...
by bigsi111
Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:31 pm
Forum: Antweights
Topic: Build Diary for a new antweight
Replies: 56
Views: 51738

Re: Build Diary for a new antweight

Looking very good!