I think it would have been easier and would have worked better to build a battle bot the conventional way more like our first bots. The E-maxx thing is still cool though.

wow, that's a powerful robot. i haven't tried pulling any cars, yet... ;)

I remember when I used to drop my RC car down the stairs so I didn't have to carry it down. That thing was pretty tough.

Matt,
How hard is it to fly the chopper? I have an electric trainer plane but I haven't flown it in about a year and a half.


Ian,
Our bot uses only 2 drill motors to drive it. The drill gearboxes are on low speed and the gearing from after the gearbox is 10/64. We have 10 inch diameter 3 inch wide wheels. We could pull more but our tires were slipping. The robot weighs exactly 130.0 lbs.

jon,
I quite often drop my cars on to the ground and drive them down the stairs. The suspension takes care of it all. However, I don't think I would drop it down the stairs.

I've got a really old car.... a Kyosho Pro-x... it started out as a buggy but I enlarged the front forks and replaced the 3" shocks with 4" ones. Kinda fun having the extra ground clearance.

I also fly planes. Been flying for a little over a year now, and I think this is my 4th or 5th plane. I slightly overpower my current plane with a Supertiger .51 ... nice engine :D I also have a small electric pylon racer... runs off a speed 400 motor and about 7 cells. No where as near as fast as my glow engine, but still kinda fun.

I just can't get up very early anymore to make it to the flying field before it gets crowded. When I did fly, it was pretty fun though.

RC cars?!
Why don't you get a life, and spend all your time on the computer, like me?

:P

Tekin Rebel Speed control
 

In 99 and 98 FIRST used Tekin Rebel speed controllers. Tekin has gone out of business, and I wonder if anyone with FIRST or RC car experience remebers how to set them up. I think you had to cut a wire for them to work with the old style FIRST contollers. For RC you had to do somesort of setup by holding the setup and moving the stick back and forth. I would love to know what this process was.

sorry, dr.bot, but i've only had nitro r/c's that don't require speed controllers.

FotoPlasma,
RC is a great hobby just to let you know.

Dr.Bot,
I own many speed controls but they are all made by Novak. I've heard that those Tekin Rebels were pretty good for their price though. I can tell you how to set up the Novak ones if you like. My advise is to contact an RC magazine such as RC Car Action www.rccaraction.com or RC Car www.rc-car.com and they could probably tell you how to do it. Also, you might try searching on eBay for a Tekin Rebel and ask the seller if he can send you a photocopy of the manual if he has it or tell you how to set it up. There are also many RC forums that you could try. Here are some of the sites where they can be found.

www.traxxas.com
www.hpiracing.com
www.rcmt.net

I hope you can find what your looking for in one of these places. Good luck!!
:)

Thanks guys
 

FIRSTees are awsome. I got the info I needed from a BBS. For those of you interested you press and hold the setup button until it starts blinking then you but the joystick full forward, full back and into neutral. Not quit sure how you make the reverse delay work but it appears off now.

This will be a real pain if I have to do it each time I start the darn thing!

If I remember right, you didn't have to adjust them everytime you started them up. Once you set it, that was pretty much it. As long as you don't start playing with the trim controls on the joystick, it should be ok.

Just curious on this, but has anyone ever tried using one of the innovation first speed controls in a car? Just wondering if it works...

Re: Tekin Rebel Speed control
 

I do remember that the middle wire needed to be cut to work properly with the Tekin controllers(something about the FIRST controller sending voltage out the middle wire that the Tekins didn't like...) Other than that I can't really help...

Any speed controls I've ever seen are set it and forget it unless you switch to using a different control system. However, someone selling a Tekin Rebel on eBay was saying it worked fine but they had to reset it before every run. Wierd huh?

I'd like to try using those Innovation FIRST Victor speed controls in an RC Car but my team would be afraid of something happening to it and I don't have $105 to buy one. They could probaly handle some hot motors but they don't have a brake function.

http://www.team-orion.ch

Anyone playing the micro R/C game its alot of fun. they are going to have a race for money just click on game to play. you have to make a name on it and stuff. Its fun

[EDIT] I was looking through my bookmarks and i found a site full of R/C videos they are awesome. http://www.wildhobbies.com/movies.asp
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