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Re: servo motors...
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:32:18 GMT
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There are only (AFAIK) three Lego motors - the puny "Micromotor", the
old Technics motor and the modern Technics/Mindstorms motor.

There are also the old (70's era) 4.5V motors.

Stepper motors are on my Mindstorms wish-list and so is a
mind-numbingly-simple-to-design-but-we'll-probably-never-see-it 9V to
4.5V motor interface so that Mindstorms can control the old, beefier,
motors (of which I have 6 to 8).

I don't know what the current drain is on the old motors, but I
suspect the RCX would whither and die if you tried to hook one up
directly.

Matthias Jetleb
VA3-MWJ



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  Re: servo motors...
 
(...) There are only (AFAIK) three Lego motors - the puny "Micromotor", the old Technics motor and the modern Technics/Mindstorms motor. The Mindstorms motor is clearly better than either of the other two (unless you are very short of space or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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