Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
We won!
Finally, after all these years, I’ve won an auction on eBay. Seems like I’m always bidding on things everyone else wants, and that those everyone elses really really like using those irritating widgets that bid for them in the last 2 seconds of the auction. I hate that! This time, I monitored the last two minutes of the auction second by second, upping my bid erratically to try to confound competitors who probably don’t even exist. But my desire to win had become gonadal in its singlemindedness, and win I would.
Oh. What did we win?
It’s
A VERY NICE FUTABA 6-CHANNEL COMPUTER RADIO SYSTEM T6XA (s) ON 50 MHz CH 50.800 WITH 4-SERVO’S, THREE ARE FP-S148, AND ONE IS A S3003, THAT ALL WORK EXCELLENT. THE RECEIVER IS A FP-R127DF 7-CHANNEL DUAL CONVERSION, AND COMES WITH SWITCH HARNESS, 600 mah BATTERY AND CHARGER. THE RADIO AND FLIGHT PACK BATTERIES ARE GOOD AND READY TO GO.
Jake wants to start building real combat robots, not those build-from-kit things you can’t even find anymore. Our first project requires only three channels, but this way we have room to grow — six channels (if I’m not mistaken) would give us four-wheel drive plus two weapons. Or perhaps two-wheel drive plus two weapons plus two blinky lights to send enemy robots into epileptic fits! Yeah, I like that.
With Battlebots coming back (supposedly), we have to work fast if we’re going to compete.
We bought a couple of wheels today, an R/C Solid State D-Switch yesterday, and we won the radio today.
I think I need a couple of motors.
Bet you didn’t know I was such a gearhead, eh?
D.
