If you're gonna be running wheelchair motors in there, you should be fine running them off a pair of hacked TZ85s, which'll be by far the cheapest option for the motor controllers (£25 each).
yeah been thinking about using them with a good mixer and a dx6i or something similar. Need to nag you about an antweigh esc after I get paid
Well it's been a while dear diary but I have info and a rubbish picture. Decided to dip my toe in the water with a beetle, 1000rpm motors, sabertooth, 12v nihm, 2wd pushy thingy all sandwiched in an ally angle and hdpe cocktail. Everything should turn up soon, I'd put up pictures of chassis so far but would be laughed at. Getting it all under a kilo hasn't been easy! Heavy is still a shell, starting again in march in to finish in time for the summer, have sketched up all the bracketry for the wheel chair motors which has been hard given they usually bolt to a frame and not a flat plate. Thanks for reading as ever.
You do realise the weight limit is 1.5kg not 1kg?
Is it 1.3kg or somewhere round there? Sort of meant metaphorically about 1kg, its a fair bit lighter than a feather lol. Mindset took a bit of adjusting. The ant came as a kit and I randomly cut some plastic out n taped it together and it somehow ended up about 120grams. I'm having to actively build this using all the same off-cuts and donations that I usually find lying around and it's all so heavy! Is it really 1.5 n not 1.3?
1.5kg here, 1.36kg (3lb) in US and Oz
Ok...the erm website category says 1.36something...should I message them to change it? Or is 1.5kg being allowed as a round number?
There was a vote at the FRA general meeting last year where it was unanimously decided that the beetleweight limit be officially moved up to 1.5kg. The rules page just hasn't been updated yet.
It wasn't unanimous but it was a heavy majority.
If so I don't remember seeing a single vote against the change, but then again it was a year ago and my memory ain't great.
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