RobotWars101

I've been having a browse for some lipos and was wondering if anyone has any experience of wiring two 1s lipos up into 2s configuration. I came across the following lipos on ebay that sem to have good performance: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3x-Three-30C-160mAh-1S-3-7V-TURNIGY-LIPO-ULTRA-MICRO-PARKZON...

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I've been fiddling around with my ants again tonight and noticed one of the sg90 9g servos used for drive was constantly spinning approximately half speed in one direction. I tried trimming it out, but failed, and also checked that the pot hadn't become dislodged from its neutral position, which it ...

I think I'm going to go with the combination I listed above of Zippy lipo and turnigy charger. Does anyone have any experience buying from hobbykings USA warehouse, since the batteries I'm looking at are out of stock elsewhere? I read on the hobbyking site that the USA wahrehouse is only for USA cus...

Thanks for the help Dave and Gary. Cleared a lot of things up

Thanks Gary, that clears a lot of my questions up! I haven't come across Robotbirds before either so I appreciate you posting that.

If anyone else has experience of using specific brands of chargers & batteries I'd be interested in hearing your opinions.

Cheers

hey Joey, nice to meet you too! - I'll reserve judgement on my robots build quality until I fight a spinner I think :) I haven't actually got that charger but am considering that or an imx b6, though I hear there are imitiations of the imax floating around so I may avoid it. I was intrigued by the l...

Following on from an enjoyable and slightly more successful AWS36 than I was expecting (I didn't lose every fight!) I'm now looking to start working on a third ant. This time I'm looking to upgrade to lipos instead of NiMhs for power. I've got a few questions about a few things I'm unsure about that...

yes that's it Dave. It's strange because the throttle up/down on the MLP4DSM is the opposite to my DX4e. I guess in order to reverse the servo itself would require swapping the two motor wires and also the two outer pot wires?

ahh ok, I meant that I mounted the servo on the right side of my ant with the servo output shaft pointing inwards, however, had I mounted the servo on the left side of my ant with the servo shaft pointing inwards the throttle up/down would have reflected the position of the flipper, rather than its ...