| 2 IFI Victor883 Electronic Speed Controllers. These little buggers are what regulate how much power the motors get which can make the go faster or slower. (That's why they are called speed controllers). At $150 a piece, I'm going to make sure they are nice and safe in a padded lexan box.
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| Here we see a massive 100 Amp continous 400 Amps surge contactor. This thing is what will switch the weapon motor on and off. Of course this thing is so big, it needs its own relay to turn it on, from the reciever of course. Big isn't it!
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| The Futaba 6XAPS radio controller. I payed an extra 40$ for the ground frequency conversion. The whole thing was about 300$ (it was on sale!).
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| Finally, we have the frame and rear drivetrain bolted in and rolling! Check it out... |
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| Top view..
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| One side of the drivetrain. I am going to have to break off the inner mounts of the wheel drivetrain because they are too close to the outer mounts. The sprockets scrape against the bearing, kinda hard to explain.
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| I worked on making a lexan box for the ESC's. Here is what I came up with, a sheet of 1/8" lexan thermoformed into a small box that fits 2 Victor883's.
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| Here are the ESC's in the box with padding on all sides to keep them safe from vibration and hard impacts. I am going to drill 2 1/4" holes in the lexan underneath the foam so it can be bolted to the baselpate, their will be neoprene shock absorbers in between the box and the bottom plate.
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| This is a picture of the sawblade in place, notice all the mounts are beginning to rust badely (good thing Iron Wolf is all stainless!), that's what happens when you live in south florida, the humidity can rust steel over a period of 1 week. If you look close, the belt is not tensioned, that's because the motor is not bolted in yet. One more thing, the brackets holding up the sawblade are tack welded in just incase we need to re-design it, keep in mind that all of the welds on Iron Wolf are done with the highest precision and accuracy. |
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| One side of the drive train completed. Motors are not bolted in yet, as I mentioned before I'm not going with these mounts since they are rather junkey. I will be getting the new ones from Cruel Robots. Now you see how the reduction assembly and wheel assembly come together, the big and small sprockets transmit torque from the motor to the wheels through 2 stages. I chose 2 stages because if I were to use one stage, the sprocket I would need would be bigger than the wheel itself! So I split it up into 2 stages.
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