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Subject: 
Re: Motor mis-match.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:00:35 GMT
Original-From: 
Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@yahoo.&StopSpam&com>
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I did it both ways, and got the same results(the order, not in exact speed). I
think that the motors are 'tuned' in some way, because random error cannot
occur 100% of the time. All motors went slower with the cable turned or the RCX
on 'Reverse', all of the time the when 'Forward'.

Andy

Shawn Menninga wrote:

> At 09:53 PM 1/14/01 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> > I was having a boring evening - so I decided to test some theories
> > about Lego motors - and at the risk of seeming pedantic - here are
> > my findings:
> 
>    Did you reverse the motors by issuing the "Reverse" command on the
> RCX or by flipping the motor leads 180 degrees?  In the first case,
> the observed slowing could easily be a property of the solid-state
> polarity switching circuitry in the RCX, where the second case would
> necessarily indicate an inherent property of the motor itself.
> 
>    Interesting experiment, though!
> 
> -SMQ                       Shawn Menninga                smq@dwarfrune.com
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  Re: Motor mis-match.
 
At 09:53 PM 1/14/01 -0600, you wrote: > I was having a boring evening - so I decided to test some theories > about Lego motors - and at the risk of seeming pedantic - here are > my findings: Did you reverse the motors by issuing the "Reverse" (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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