Good lord, I wish that was my personal workshop at the beginning! It is the only Air Force Wood Crafts shop in Korea. Pretty typical for most Air Force wood shops. Lots of room to work with the basic heavy wood machines. This particular shop just got a brand new tabletop router...a monster of a router that will probably take your hand off if you are not careful! They also picked up a brand new planer...it's in the background in some of the pictures. They also have a very nice framing cutoff saw that makes 45 degree angled cuts easy and fast. What they didn't have was working routers. I had to buy my own because someone screwed up the two routers the wood shop had. My personal workshop is the tiny messy room with the messy table and helicopters & planes in the background. Heh. Barely enough room to move around the Merkava.
I went with 36 volt motors not for the added power (they are still only 1000 watts), but to reduce the amp draw. Given that Watts = Volts * Amps, if the load stays the same (1000watts), you can raise the voltage to lower the amp draw (Volts / Watts = Amps). If I could have found a nice motor controller that handled 48 volts, I would have went with the 1000w/48v motors to reduce amp draw even further. RC airplane and helicopter guys discovered the advantages to high voltage systems years ago to combat the high amp draws that killed fragile LiPoly battery packs. It also boosted flight times and power system effciency. We'll see how it works out and if I'll be able to find batteries to power the tank. Mike M ________________________________ From: Chris Malton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 4:52:20 PM Subject: [TANKS] Re: Merk and Zelda Update Mike, fantastic work there. Looks like it's coming together really well. 36V motors!? That's is going to be one heck of a tank! I hope that isn't your personal workshop at the start, otherwise I'm slightly worried! Chris On 07/11/2008 14:40, Mike Mangus wrote: > Ok! Finally got a battery charger for the camera ... which let me download > the pictures on the camera ... which let me upload them to Photobucket. :) > > Go to > http://s410.photobucket.com/albums/pp183/mike5334/Merkava%20and%20Zelda/?albumview=slideshow > to see how things are coming along. :) > > Mike M > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
