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Lego Mad Steve <SteveRobLane@aol.com> wrote in message
news:G9r2ny.24y@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > Hmmm. Couldn't see any pneumatics, but I, too, am interested in the IR
> > controller, and what you used for the receiver. Jen???
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> If you took a close look you could see that drive was provided by a geared
> motor under the cab. Raise/lower was powered by a geared motor in the • right
> side pod. Skip forward back was by micro motor at the end of the arm.
> Tip/offload selector mechanism was controlled by another micromotor at the
> base of the arm. I couldn't see what powered the steering but presume
> another micro motor was buried in the chassis. The receiver was in the • left
> sidepod and the batteries where in the cab. Jen didnt use pneumatics • because
> she wanted complete remote control operation and unfortunately lego • doesn't
> make electro pneumatic valves, which makes reversing the motion using
> pneumatics v.difficult.
Yeah, I'd pretty much figured all that out, but I don't recognise the IR
controller, and it doesn't look like Lego. Just wondering what it is.
ROSCO
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| (...) If you took a close look you could see that drive was provided by a geared motor under the cab. Raise/lower was powered by a geared motor in the right side pod. Skip forward back was by micro motor at the end of the arm. Tip/offload selector (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.technic)
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