| From: | "Gene Burbeck" <gburb-at-advantagecs.com> |
| Subject: | RE: Gene is building a tank! [TANKS] |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:27:21 -0400 |
| Reply-To: | tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
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No, the first arrangement
is just how I set the parts out initially to see how they will fit together. The
last three pictures are the most recent. I wanted to include that 1st picture
mainly to show the motor and transaxel arrangement. I want to make the
drivetrain like that of a real tank, with just one motor driving a differential.
There will be a brake on each side of the differential to slow down one track or
the other for steering.
As I said in my first
message, I'm coming from building fighting robots, so a lot of my parts and
materials are leftovers from that. Here is a partial list of the parts I'm using
for the Mark VIII Liberty:
- 4X (slow, long-running
mode, 24V) or 3X (fast, short-runtime mode, 36V) - Hawker 16 Ah
battery- http://www.batterymart.com/battery.mv?p=SBS-J16
- Curtis 400 amp esc - http://curtisinst.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=cProducts.DownloadPDF&file=50036REVC%2Epdf
- Northern Tool go-kart
differential - http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_35768_35768
While all this stuff is
very expensive, it is mostly leftover from robots, so I'm not spending an arm
and a leg to make this tank.
My goals in this project
are probably quite different than those of many other tank builders. Rather than
combat effectiveness or strict scale reproduction I'm going for speed, strength,
and in general making it fun to drive and maintainance-free.
Gene
From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On Behalf Of OdysseySlipways-at-aol.com Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:04 AM To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com Subject: Re: Gene is building a tank! [TANKS] are you building 2 of them? that's the impression I'm getting, I see what
looks like 2 different arrangements
Chris,
Odyssey Slipways |