El Cholo is a Changin'

well.. sometime yesterday, Lui de Armas and I totally went bonkers and put a 32 pound drum on el cholo. At least in solidworks, anyway. the 2 small Magmotors and their speed controllers came in today (that's the weapon drive, and yes, overnight shipping), and today we ordered the 7"OD, 5/8" wall, 6.75" long steel tubing for the drum, and took DXF's and metal to waterjet for weapon support and teeth. it will be the worlds quickest addition of an okay weapon ever! maybe around 5000-7000 rpm, should be fun to watch.. weapon battery pack will be 29.6V, 9000mAh (4 lipos total, 2series*2parallel). 2 magmotors should spin this thing no problem. I'm so excited!!

(BTW, I'm not exaggerating the time scale lol0

did you slighty offset the center axle or do you just run them all of the same plane?

it used to have 4 motors per side, so we took one out on each

not really what i ment lol
Ive always been under the impression that you should lower the center wheels on a 6 wheel bot by 1/8"
sorta like it would rock front to back

oh, I see.. no, We didn't do that. that scares me! lol

Looks good! Hopefully you'll finish in time for the competition though - it's next week, after all. Still, a decent drum + the insane armor along the back + the vacuum should be an interesting combination. Also, I hope you've switched to colsons.

It will get finished! And yes, we switched to colsons as soon as we got back from nationals.

looks like fun! Take lots of video from nats cause i don't think i'm gonna make it

nooo!!!!!