Beetleweight Brushless Drive Tutorial

Going with a brushless drive system can help reduce the weight and increase your drive power. This tutorial shows you how I did the brushless drive system in my 3lb beetleweight combat robot, Anxiety Attack. By using a few off-the-shelf components, you can put together a powerful drive system for your next beetle!

I get my 22mm gearboxes from ServoCity. They come in many different ratios:

https://www.servocity.com/motors-actu...

Below are links for a couple calculators that will help you in determining the RPM you need for your gearbox.

http://runamok.tech/AskAaron/optimum....
http://runamok.tech/squid/newtorqueca...

Be sure to also check out my video on how to reflash your ESCs to support forward/reverse for driving:

   • SimonK Firmware Flashing Tutorial (Br...  

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