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"New Era was slowly brought to life in Paul's garage over about 4 months on and off. It was really an excuse to get out of the house then go for a curry, but as time went on we actually thought we might have a good chance of getting into the wars."
— The Team on New Era

New Era was a heavyweight robot which was built to enter Series 4 of Robot Wars, although it failed to qualify. A new version of New Era also entered the build stage ahead of Series 5, but it is unknown if this version was completed.

Design[]

New Era was made a welded frame chassis using 15mm box section steel bars, armed with a battery powered flipper which was later converted into an axe as a multifunctional use[1]. The robot's drive was 2x 24volt dodgem drive motors with drive train while the main robot was powered by 4x 12Volt dry cell batteries. New Era was capable of speeds of 22 mph[2]

Qualification[]

"Well where do I start. Yesterday I worked for 23 hours on the robot as at midday we had to change the drive motors due to problems with speed controllers, then get everything mounted in it was a rush and we finally finished at 3.15am and then had to get up at 5.30am to drive to the wars without having tested New Era. This is where the problems started first when we switched it on we had a small fire in the wiring for the axe so we had to replace that. Then we could not get the radio gear to centre, then the speed controller stopped working and then so did the axe, but to make things worse we ran out of CO2 gas for the ram and that as they say was that. This is a fair well to New Era mark1 after failing at the last hurdle."
— New Era Website on the Fourth Wars qualifiers (edited)

New Era was not tested by the time of the Fourth Wars qualifiers, thus the team rushed to get to the studios. However, upon getting to the studios for qualification, numerous problems occurred. Firstly, a small fire started in the wiring for the axe resulting in the wires being replaced on the spot then the CO2 gas for the ram ran out. It is unknown who or if New Era fought in the qualifier battles after this incident but it failed to qualify regardless.

The team began working on a successor for the Fifth Wars, although it is unknown whether the robot was finished in time.

Series Record[]

Series New Era Series Record
The First Wars Did not enter
The Second Wars Did not enter
The Third Wars Did not enter
The Fourth Wars Failed to qualify
The Fifth Wars Unknown
The Sixth Wars Did not enter
The Seventh Wars Did not enter
Series 8 Did not enter
Series 9 Did not enter
Series 10 Did not enter

References[]

External Links[]

New Era Website

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