RE: Untethered Action! [TANKS]

["Pete Curran" <petesboyz-at-Punkass.com>]

Well done now I have to get off my but and start building

Pete Curran



-----Original Message-----
From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On
Behalf Of John De Villiers
Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:51
To: Tanks
Subject: Re: Untethered Action! [TANKS]


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:27, adt22-at-drexel.edu wrote:
> I finally got my tank running RC'ed today thanks to Joe's MRC 
> controller.  No more walking along side the tank - woohoo!
> 
> A word to the wise - don't leave your v-belts on when your tank is in 
> storage they'll stretch out.  oops.
> 
> A question for the wise - is it ever possible to skimp on the wire 
> running off of the negative side of the battery?  I was thinking that 
> the amps were "consumed" by the motors.  (See photo attached) Feel 
> free to laugh at me now.  My ~16 gauge wire got warm after a couple 
> minutes of running.  So I'll be beefing it up but just wanted to 
> understand what was happening.
> 
> -Amir
> 
>