Technobots Ltd

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Newsletter November 2006 Iss 3

Welcome to our third newsletter, later than intended but we wanted to complete a deal on a new range of motors first but more on that later.

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Technobots Ltd, The Old Grain Store, Rear of 62 Rumbridge Street, Totton, SO40 9DS

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We are settling into our new store and steadily putting more products on show.  This week we put out our range of pneumatics, gears & sprockets, nuts & bolts etc. in fact over 600 items.  Our intention was to have every product on show but with our increasing product range, some items will be behind the counter.  We do hope to see some of you in the store but of course with customers all over the country, we are not always local!

New single and dual channel motor controllers from Pololu

Click on pictures to go to website page for further information

An extensive range of emgineering materials in brass, aluminium, copper & tin

Protect your receiver or receiver battery from impact damage with this protective wrap-around

Our new 40Mhz collapsible aerial for boats and robots

A new range of 3 robot controllers from Pololu called the Orangutan using the Atmel AVR processor

All orders placed using from the 28th November to the 15th December with a goods order value of over £60 will qualify for free carriage to any mainland UK address.  You will need to enter “NDP32” into the promotional code box when you enter your personal details during the check-out stage of ordering.  We will then discount the carriage when we process your order.

November saw one of our largest additions to our product range - some 140 items.  Just a selection and in no particular order:  Breadboard, Orangutan robot controller, Pololu 30A single and dual motor controllers, a range of model engineering materials in strip, sheet, tube and rod forms, more pneumatic fittings, more crimp kits, fuse kit and various fixings kits, lithium cells, a handy tachometer, etc.

Lithium button cell

Breadboard for prototyping those circuits.  We also have a range of recently introduced pre-formed insulated wire links for use with these boards

We have recognised for some time that we have a rather large hole in our range of motors.  We have it just about covered now for the range 100mW to 150W but after that it is the Bosch 750W.  Now we are going to plug that gap with a range of 22 motors from 150W to 1000W.  These motors are now being manufactured for us and we hope they will be on the container ship this side of Xmas to reach us late January.  This is very exciting for us as this means we will surely have the widest range of hobby dc motors in the UK to order on-line from stock.  Pricing will be good news as well with pricing starting at £15 + VAT for the 150W motor.  Seven models will have integral gearboxes starting at 200W right up to two 750W models.  The flagship motor being a 750W 36V motor with planetary drive gearbox giving a final speed of 600 rpm (that’s 17mph on 10” wheels) for just £89 + VAT now that has to be value for money.  Newsletter subscribers will be able to pre-order early January at an introductory discount price.  See the next newsletter for details.

You must all be shy as we did not receive any entries for our September competition, we will re-run it again next year.  Coincidently,  we had a customer pop in to out store just a few days ago and to say his use of our products is unusual is an understatement.  Now this is very hard to describe but he had built a pair electric powered single wheel bikes that tow you along on your roller blades.  But there’s more, each ‘bike’ was beautifully sculptured in polished aluminium and fitted with a 400W sound system with 2GB MP3 player.  Each ‘bike’ was radio linked to offer stereo sound.  Just take a look at these:

 

U Clip fixings

4 more Crimp kits & 3 fuse kits

That’s it for this month, be sure to read next month for details of the new motors plus details of what will be the lowest priced FM radio sets in the country.