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- peterwaller
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Dominant has three 2mm aluminium wedge shape tines at the front which are what passes for a weapon. They in no way afford protection to either servo's, wheels, receiver or batteries apart from the front so I don't see how they could be considered armour. Besides that Dominant has not competed in a world series for some years now so is not a very good example to quote.
Maybe this is a better example.
http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws14 ... batAnt.jpg
That protects the servos.
http://www.antweight.co.uk/results/ws14 ... batAnt.jpg
That protects the servos.
- peterwaller
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I can't remeber the thickness of the aluminium on that version of combatant but as it was a chassis it does't matter. The wheels were completely outside the aluminium and it was only about 12 to 15mm deep which would not protect much of the 50mm hight. The sole use of the aluminium was to provide a wedge at the rear and to mount the servos and weapons motor. If it was supposed to be armour it would have been a poor design. Any one can challenge a robot design at a competition if they think it is outside the rules and I don't remeber you complaining when you borrowed Dominant for one competition. Can we take it from your interest that your thinking of competing in another world series event. Maybe if you designed a robot with a weapon on it you could use that to pick holes in my robots for real instead of just verbally.
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- BeligerAnt
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Ian, you know as well as anyone that the rules define armour as "A protective layer or skin".
If your 2mm metal is armour then it is not allowed by the rules. Adding "a thin layer of plastic" as you suggest would change nothing. The metal would still be armour!
Stop sniping at other people's designs, it does you no favours. As you know, inappropriate posts may be deleted by the moderators and persistant offenders can be banned.
If your 2mm metal is armour then it is not allowed by the rules. Adding "a thin layer of plastic" as you suggest would change nothing. The metal would still be armour!
Stop sniping at other people's designs, it does you no favours. As you know, inappropriate posts may be deleted by the moderators and persistant offenders can be banned.
Gary, Team BeligerAnt