Ok, so it's not really a bot, but it's sooooo cool. My dad made a connection with a guy who works with electric wheelchairs. He told him about fighting robots and how most of the bot parts come from wheelchairs. Not long after my dad got a call saying that the guy had a chair that was going to be thrown out and did we want it before that happened. We said yes, and my dad picked it up at the guys office. After building D-Monic IV one night, Mitch, Casey and I decided to have some fun. We discovered that the chair's control board was dead, so we got rid of the controls and wired in 2 DPDT spring loaded switches instead. Without its safety features, the chair does wheelies down the street and really hauls. The bad news is that the motors pull about 120 amps at stall (not that we were able to stall them) and our Rat Shack switches were 25 amp maximum. As the chair ran, the switches would get extremely hot and every so often one of the switches would stick in one direction or another and the chair would crash into things. Unfortunatly I ran out of wire while I was finishing wireing D-Monic at the last second and I had to canabilzie some of the wire on the chair. My future plans for this beast is to rewire it with better switches, and maybe even rebuild the frame to make it more like a kart. Oh yeah, it needs a kill switch in a better location (the old disconect was under the seat, and it isn't a good idea to try and reach it when the chair is heading for a brick wall at high speeds).
