WEll the Hawker genesis batteries are quite popular here in the UK for robotwars (we use panasonics but thats becasue we get them free), they are rated at 17Ah and so could supply 300A for 3 minutes (possibly a little longer). Also the motor is unlikely to be drawing 300A continuously. I would imagine once the weapon is spun up, unless it is very unbalanced (not likely looking at the quality of machining on the thing) then the current requirements would be much less.
Alex
http://www.firestorm2.co.uk
p.s. Design is different from building, if you don't design your build goes wrong see our robot groundhog for an example of not what to do, and Firestorm for a robot we actually spent ime desiging.
I have competed in RobotWars UK for the last 3 years, and have enjoyed most of my time building and competing with other robot builders.
However the production company are quite mean. We fought on a Monday, won our first round battles, and then were told to go home for 3 days until the semi finals. Its not like we were expecting 4 Star accomodation or anything, a B&B would do. The production company wouldn't pay our travel expenses either, and award no prize to the winner other than a small trophy (that has been made by another competitor in the past, as they were too cheap to make one themselves).
As most of you probably know robotwars is different to battlebots. In battlebots if there is a KO the battle stops, everyine goes away with their machine mostly intact. Whereas in RW if your robot is disabled, the house robots come in and beat the crap out of your robot, which weighs less than half what the house robots weigh.
Now the production company are going to film a US robot wars, heres some details from an email received by a US robot builder:-
The US ROBOT WARS CHAMPIONSHIP
will take place from June 27 to July 1, 2001 in London, England.
Winners will automatically qualify for the
2001 ROBOT WARS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
to be held on July 1, 2001 in central London
with prize money totaling over $50,000.
The qualifying process for the US Championship will take place throughout the United States over the next few months.
All teams who qualify will be flown to the United Kingdom to take part in the mechanized mother of all wars being recorded exclusively for American Network TV.
We will supply...
* All freight and international flight arrangements. *
* All international travel and hotel costs. *
* A $2000 appearance fee per qualifying robot. *
If you want to be part of the original largest and fastest growing robotic sport in the world, please contact the US Robot Wars Headquarters immediately.
E-mail us NOW at robotwars@bandeira-ent.com.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Your robot MUST be built in accordance with the current
"US ROBOTWARS Rules & Regulations."
If you do not have a copy of these rules, please email us immediately.
It is essential that you build to these rules as they differ from others currently available.
You can use ordinary lenses (for example I'm using a semi-fisheye series Vii lens) on the slr olympus models. The thread on the front of the C1400XL (and C1400L) is 43mm, you can get a stepping ring, from 43 to 46 and 46 to series vii. Okay so im losing a little of the picture round the edges due to vignetting, but can still take some pretty nice fisheye pics with a standard lens. The lens is a cheap semi-fisheye from jessops, and the stepping rings cost no more than a few pounds. Alex http;//www.fire-storm.co.uk
An open rotary saw is exactly what one of the most destructive robots there had (Nightmare), except this is no ordinary saw its about 1/2" thick and between 2' and 3' in diameter. Took huge chunks out of the first robot it went up against, but then the organisers made the driver rotate the blade in the opposite direction so bits flung up from the saw didnt hit the crowd!
There is also a very cool crushing robot called Razer, which use hydraulics to exert huge forces on other robots.
There are links to many other fighting robots from around the world on http://www.dangerousmachines.com/links/ under entrants, there's about 150 websites linked to from there.
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WEll the Hawker genesis batteries are quite popular here in the UK for robotwars (we use panasonics but thats becasue we get them free), they are rated at 17Ah and so could supply 300A for 3 minutes (possibly a little longer). Also the motor is unlikely to be drawing 300A continuously. I would imagine once the weapon is spun up, unless it is very unbalanced (not likely looking at the quality of machining on the thing) then the current requirements would be much less.
Alex
http://www.firestorm2.co.uk
p.s. Design is different from building, if you don't design your build goes wrong see our robot groundhog for an example of not what to do, and Firestorm for a robot we actually spent ime desiging.
I have competed in RobotWars UK for the last 3 years, and have enjoyed most of my time building and competing with other robot builders.
However the production company are quite mean. We fought on a Monday, won our first round battles, and then were told to go home for 3 days until the semi finals. Its not like we were expecting 4 Star accomodation or anything, a B&B would do. The production company wouldn't pay our travel expenses either, and award no prize to the winner other than a small trophy (that has been made by another competitor in the past, as they were too cheap to make one themselves).
As most of you probably know robotwars is different to battlebots. In battlebots if there is a KO the battle stops, everyine goes away with their machine mostly intact. Whereas in RW if your robot is disabled, the house robots come in and beat the crap out of your robot, which weighs less than half what the house robots weigh.
Now the production company are going to film a US robot wars, heres some details from an email received by a US robot builder:-
**Stop Press ** Stop Press ** Stop Press ** Stop Press ** Stop Press **
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE ON ROBOT WARS!
The US ROBOT WARS CHAMPIONSHIP
will take place from June 27 to July 1, 2001 in London, England.
Winners will automatically qualify for the
2001 ROBOT WARS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
to be held on July 1, 2001 in central London
with prize money totaling over $50,000.
The qualifying process for the US Championship will take place throughout the United States over the next few months.
All teams who qualify will be flown to the United Kingdom to take part in the mechanized mother of all wars being recorded exclusively for American Network TV.
We will supply...
* All freight and international flight arrangements. *
* All international travel and hotel costs. *
* A $2000 appearance fee per qualifying robot. *
If you want to be part of the original largest and fastest growing robotic sport in the world, please contact the US Robot Wars Headquarters immediately.
E-mail us NOW at robotwars@bandeira-ent.com.
**PLEASE NOTE**
Your robot MUST be built in accordance with the current
"US ROBOTWARS Rules & Regulations."
If you do not have a copy of these rules, please email us immediately.
It is essential that you build to these rules as they differ from others currently available.
Contact Details:
Email: robotwars@bandeira-ent.com
Web: www.robotwars.com
Technical Inquiries:
Derek: rwusa@delbotsfoxy.demon.co.uk
...Let the Wars begin
We havent even been told when we are required for filming!
You can use ordinary lenses (for example I'm using a semi-fisheye series Vii lens) on the slr olympus models. The thread on the front of the C1400XL (and C1400L) is 43mm, you can get a stepping ring, from 43 to 46 and 46 to series vii. Okay so im losing a little of the picture round the edges due to vignetting, but can still take some pretty nice fisheye pics with a standard lens. The lens is a cheap semi-fisheye from jessops, and the stepping rings cost no more than a few pounds.
Alex
http;//www.fire-storm.co.uk
An open rotary saw is exactly what one of the most destructive robots there had (Nightmare), except this is no ordinary saw its about 1/2" thick and between 2' and 3' in diameter. Took huge chunks out of the first robot it went up against, but then the organisers made the driver rotate the blade in the opposite direction so bits flung up from the saw didnt hit the crowd!
:)
There is also a very cool crushing robot called Razer, which use hydraulics to exert huge forces on other robots.
There are links to many other fighting robots from around the world on http://www.dangerousmachines.com/links/
under entrants, there's about 150 websites linked to from there.
Don't forget to look at our robot, FireStorm
Alex
Whew, I'm glad this didn't get /.ed before the event othewrwise it would have made the webcast servers crash even more than they did.
while we are on the subject of fighting robots Our website contains details of our entrys into RobotWars UK and some links to other RW sites