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Re: Those RC car motors
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Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:04:55 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
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> they are IIRC, high speed.
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> Has anyone used them as a drive motor in a robot? (AND dave if you tell
> me about your babrie doll car I will mock you)
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> did you gear them? (yes i know there are 2 holes/speeds)
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> or are these better suited for the RC car and something that can put out
> a "bit" more current?
I built a sumo robot for BrickFest '04. Oh, sorry, that's right, can't mention
sumo on this channel.
Ok, I built a vanilla robot that happened to use two RC motors. First time I
tried it on the kitchen floor, it damn near killed the cat. Turned out it went
much too fast for the RCX to react to sensor input and kill the power.
I used 9v (6xAA) battery packs to power the motors one per each and used regular
gear motors to drive cams to operate the battery packs' buttons. Worked great!
As long as you're not a cat.
I ended up gearing the motors down to reduce speed rather than increase torque.
But you're right, the overload trips will go off in the RCX if you try to drive
these motors directly.
JB
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| (...) whats sumo? cant be any good or fun if RTL has never done it. (...) I'm at at the "add motors" stage to my robot, and I was just mess'n around. it would seem the RCX 1.0 powered with AC and direct driving the large "motorcycle" tyres... could (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| they are IIRC, high speed. Has anyone used them as a drive motor in a robot? (AND dave if you tell me about your babrie doll car I will mock you) did you gear them? (yes i know there are 2 holes/speeds) or are these better suited for the RC car and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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