T3 Mini Truck...

[nerdcool64]

What do you guys use to run the thing, motor wise? Thanks.

[Alexander McGee]

Ok Folks, ill bring out the specifics for all of you. I know lots about this truck!

The batteries are 12volts each, there are 4 of them. They are wired in series, and weigh 80lbs each. They are marine batteries.

The motor is a 6hp electric motor that was purchased from daewood, i think.

It has disk brakes, neon lights, an air horn, strobe lights, and a siren.

The bodys were created by our team. GM makes 1/3 scale models of all vehicles, so, we made a mold of the 97' sierra, and made bodies (4 of them) using molding of fiberglass and other materials.

Our body colors are: red, yellow with blue flames, white with blue stripes, and our newest addition; hot-rod purple.

We can tow a robot on the back of our truck, or on the trailer that attaches to it. Or both.

We are planning to re-build the chassis (basically an old steel go-kart) to a lighter aluminum one this summer.

We are also hoping to have different bodys for it; Hummer 2, Escalade, Denali, Silverado, are a few names that we have been asking our advisors to look into for us.

We are defineatelly adding a lifting system to the truck, and to the trailer. Wether we use lead screws or pnumatics have not been determined.

We will remake the entire trailer this summer. We want a plexiglass and polished aluminum body, and a wider wheel base. And rubber tires. We are also going to add more lights.

Our final plans for the truck include a sterio. I will be putting this in, I hope. GM has gotten some speakers and amps for us out of H2's (all Bose), and we always have head-units laying around.

Thank you for your interist in our mini-truck. Check back at our website later for detailed pictures. I'll go take some right away.

[Andrew Rudolph]

some of you may or may have not saw our mercedes sitting next to the t3 truck, here is a pic of it


there are more pictures

http://www.firstrobotics.net/212/carro/1.jpg
http://www.firstrobotics.net/212/carro/2.jpg
http://www.firstrobotics.net/212/carro/3.jpg
http://www.firstrobotics.net/212/carro/4.jpg

its powered by a Bosh motor that was orginally for a electric bike, with a 12v battery for a lawnmower, it has a disc brake and can take a person or 2 to 6fps it has strobes in the headlights and one under the liscence plate, it had a skull shifter knob but someone stole it at nats and the most annoying horn ever! we didnt have time to make a trailer for it, but it has the power to pull the bot behind it.