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im lookin at speedboards for my bots and i think im gunna get two scorpion mini single boards r they any gd should i buy 1 of the others instead?
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The Scorpion Minis are excellent, and really are the best for weight and size, unless you want a board with a weapon controller on. Being 2 smaller boards, there also easier to fit into a robot than one large one. As for your last question, the 4 connections are 2 for the motor, and 2 for the battery. and yes, for 2 boards you would simply conect your battery to both boards (in parralel).
Scott Fyfe-Jamieson, Captain of Epic Robotics. Champion of AWS38/41/42.
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
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I was considering the scorpian minis to rebuild ballistic and was wondering.
How would you mount them their dosent appear to be a screw hole(at least not in the pics ive seen)?
How would you go about installing a switch to turn of the robot(is it as simple as pluging one into the battery side of the switch harness)?
thanks help would be much appreaciated
How would you mount them their dosent appear to be a screw hole(at least not in the pics ive seen)?
How would you go about installing a switch to turn of the robot(is it as simple as pluging one into the battery side of the switch harness)?
thanks help would be much appreaciated
The only 'hole' as such to mount the boards by is the 3.5-ish mm hole in the big block thing (yay for technical terms) on top - I've got a peice of 4mm polycarb milled to slot in there with a tapped hole to take a plastic screw though the component. Failing that, just use elastic bands/cable ties
As for the switch, the controllers act as a BEC for the reciever. So you would have your positive from your battery going to a switch, just like normal, then out of the switch, split into 2 leads and into both control boards, connect all negatives together, and the reciever would be powered by the lead from one of the boards, (you remove the +/- leads from the other board and just run the signal wire to the RX)
As for the switch, the controllers act as a BEC for the reciever. So you would have your positive from your battery going to a switch, just like normal, then out of the switch, split into 2 leads and into both control boards, connect all negatives together, and the reciever would be powered by the lead from one of the boards, (you remove the +/- leads from the other board and just run the signal wire to the RX)
Scott Fyfe-Jamieson, Captain of Epic Robotics. Champion of AWS38/41/42.
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk
http://www.epicrobotics.co.uk