Hi all,
Thanks for the thoughts on our smoke release. I do usually like to have spare smoke on hand, but in this case it seems to be special smoke that I don't have.
Seriously, we had made a mini bot prototype which wasn't much more than a sled with a ring of plastic to hold it on the to the pole. 2 kit wheels on 2 motors and the battery. It wouldn't go up the pole very well as it didn't have enough traction.
Some one wanted to measure the speed and so they set it on the floor where it ran for about 5 seconds and then a puff of the afore mentioned smoke came out of the motor and it started going in circles, i.e., the motor had died.
I'm a bit surprised that this happened, and I'm not sure that it wasn't just a weak motor to begin with, but there's no way to tell at this point.
Here's a link to a pic of what we were trying.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32185729@N03/5365599045/
I don't have a pic of the burnt part yet, I'll try to get one tonight.
Thanks everyone, have a great day,
Mike