Hi Guys,
I know a few of you on here and many may well know my robots. I'm Will from Team Shock (and Shockbots.co.uk). We have robots in pretty much every weight class at the moment so I thought I'd give some details on the ones we currently have
HeavyweightsMantaWeight- 95kg
Length- 850mm
Width- 750mm
Height- 400mm
Chassis/ armour- 4mm Hardox 400 all over
Drive- 2x Bosch 750's with home made gearboxes
ESC- Wotty 360
Batteries- 4x 4s LiFe packs to give 8s2p
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 flipper with a 100mm bore, 150mm stroke ram with twin buffer tanks
Awards: Best Heavyweight Newcomer 2013, European Championships 2nd 2013, UK Championships 2nd & 3rd 2013/2014, Robot Wars Winter Tour Champion 2013 and Robots Live Whitwick Champion 2015
MaelstromWeight- 100kg
Length- 1100mm
Width- 800mm
Height- 350mm
Chassis/ armour- 3mm Raex & 20mm HDPE
Drive- 2x Bosch 750's with home made gearboxes
ESC- Wotty 360
Batteries- 4x 8s A123 packs
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 double flipper with a 75mm bore, 150mm stroke ram
Awards: Best Heavyweight Newcomer 2008, UK Championships 2nd (2009 & 2012) 4th (2010, Winner of 2 Robot Wars Events and 3 Robots Live Events
Shockwave (coming soon)Weight- 100kg
Length- 750mm
Width- 750mm
Height- 450mm
Chassis/ armour- 3mm Raex
Drive- 2x unknown motors
ESC- Roboteq
Batteries- 4x 4s LiFe packs to give 8s2p
Weapon- Low Pressure CO2 Axe (and possibly flipper) with a 100mm bore 300mm stroke axe ram with accellerating linkage and twin 63mm bore 150mm stroke flipper rams
Still a work in progress but may see an arena this year.
Current featherweights:Beauty 8Weight- 13.6kg
Length- 500mm
Width- 400mm
Height- 250mm
Chassis/ armour- Titanium Bar
Drive- 2x Speed 900s
ESC- TZ85a
Batteries- 6s Lipo
Weapon- Full Pressure CO2 flipper with a 60mm bore, 80mm stroke ram
Awards: UK Championships 2nd 2014, World Championships 3rd 2015
StingrayWeight- 9kg
Length- 250mm
Width- 450mm
Height- 120mm
Chassis/ armour- 4mm Hardox 400 all over
Drive- 2x HTI motors with mini EV gearboxes (soon to be upgraded to our new 'ShockboX' gearmotors
ESC- Sidewinder
Batteries- 6s LiPo
Weapon- Flail tail and pushing power
We have a new feather in the pipeline as well which will be the prototype of the new Shockbots Feather Kit