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Re: Those RC car motors
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:23:30 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.
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> whats sumo? cant be any good or fun if RTL has never done it.
Now, you guys are just getting personal...
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> > 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.
Sounds like a damn near successful robot.
> > 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!
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 normal
geared motor
2) They run about 3x as fast as the normal motors (using the last output on the RC
motor)
3) Powering them from battery packs, you can either use John's method, having cams
pressing buttons, or use polarity switches. Either method requires extra motors to
control the RC motors.
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| (...) 4) RC motors can trip the thermal protection in the battery boxes if the RC motors are heavily loaded or stalled. One stalled RC motor will trip the thermal protection on the 6xAA 9V battery box (ask Steve). Two small 9V battery boxes in (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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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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