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Re: Those RC car motors
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Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:18:42 GMT
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> I built a sumo robot for BrickFest '04. Oh, sorry, that's right, can't mention
> sumo on this channel.
whats sumo? cant be any good or fun if RTL has never done it.
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> JB
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 not move a simple frame, and single rcx
without stuttering.
I guess its back to my reg motor and a worm to 24. THAT moves anything!!!
:)
Chris
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| (...) Now, you guys are just getting personal... (...) Sounds like a damn near successful robot. (...) If you want to use the RC motors, there are a couple things to know: 1) You can not power them from an RCX. They'll run, but not as well as the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) 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. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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