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Revision as of 23:24, 10 October 2012
Complex Spinners are virtually always HS types, and involve placing spinning motors on other spinning motors using tribars or discs.
The large majority of complex spinners are HS, simply because it is far more practical to build a complex HS than any other complex spinner.
Borg Drone, a complex HS
Complex spinners can be either parallel or perpendicular. Starting out from a horizontal spinner (a vertical source just self-destructs), stick either a disc or bar, then mount another set of motors. If the axles of this second set are still like horizontal spinners, then this is the parallel variety. Perpendicular are if axles are angled outward (90 degrees to the source), like rotating face spinners. The advantage of this design is that even if the main spinner is stopped by a ram, the outer spinners often still rotate.
The Battlebot AI pack's Phrizbee and a some of the Starcore bots are complex spinners.
ACAMS has many complex spinners...
PROS:
- Difficult to stop entirely
CONS:
- Lots of weight used on motors and batteries, resulting in lower weapon loads than standard HS
- More fragile than standard HS