Hi guys,
I'm a guy from Belgium looking for a new project and some advice. I have 2 esavage trucks laying around so I tought lets build a robot. To make things worse I had the brilliant idea to merge them together in order to turn by driving left and right in the opposite direction. So lets see if my idea was actually that brilliant.
After looking at this and then trying , I bumped into a few problems.
1) The shocks are nowhere near powerfull enough to hold its own weight let alone with the actual load (at least 8 extra pounds). Thats why you see no shocks in the picture.
2) The gearsbox ratio is to high. I want more control in the lower rpm's. In other words reduce the max speed.
3) The diffs are not working anymore because I cut the savage in half. So I had to mount the
4 shaft ends of the savages to the chasis which is not that nice because you hear them moving and clicking when you power the motors.
4) the wheels are too flat at this point to drive.
So my question is do you guys have some advice or can you point me in the right directionto modify the savage in order to use it this way. If the advice is to get another platform then you may be right .
Anyway thanks in advance!
Cheers
I'm a guy from Belgium looking for a new project and some advice. I have 2 esavage trucks laying around so I tought lets build a robot. To make things worse I had the brilliant idea to merge them together in order to turn by driving left and right in the opposite direction. So lets see if my idea was actually that brilliant.
After looking at this and then trying , I bumped into a few problems.
1) The shocks are nowhere near powerfull enough to hold its own weight let alone with the actual load (at least 8 extra pounds). Thats why you see no shocks in the picture.
2) The gearsbox ratio is to high. I want more control in the lower rpm's. In other words reduce the max speed.
3) The diffs are not working anymore because I cut the savage in half. So I had to mount the
4 shaft ends of the savages to the chasis which is not that nice because you hear them moving and clicking when you power the motors.
4) the wheels are too flat at this point to drive.
So my question is do you guys have some advice or can you point me in the right directionto modify the savage in order to use it this way. If the advice is to get another platform then you may be right .
Anyway thanks in advance!
Cheers