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Re: Those RC car motors
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Date: 
Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:58:12 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote:

3) Powering them from battery packs, you can either
use John's method, having cams pressing buttons, or
use polarity switches.

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
parallel can handle at least a heavily loaded (perhaps stalled) RC motor.
Barely.

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: Those RC car motors
 
(...) 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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