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Subject: 
More juice out of the standard motors.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:15:03 GMT
Original-From: 
Magnus Fasting <pleboy@ANTISPAMonline.no>
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Hello

I'm trying to make a robot go as fast as possible, but it seems that the
power of the engines are stopping me. I own one RIS kit and nothing more.
Can i add some more batteries or something?

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Magnus Fasting
E-mail: pleboy@online.no
Icq: 28291552



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
 
Tricky , Tricky, here's the dilly, 8 to 24 tooth makes the fastest, but low output power, try to find the proper combo so your motors don't work to hard, add a worm gear to hold off the back spin, then try some more gears to get the speed you need, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
 
(...) Assuming the robot is being used self-powered (versus with AC adapter), would there be benefit in modifying the RCX to run off a single 9 volt versus all those AA's? That would save quite a bit of weight. :) Doing this wouldn't be "Lego pure" (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
 
I think the best solution is to use NO gears. Without the additional friction of the gears and axles through beams, the motors are surprisingly powerful. I have had very good experience with direct drive robots. I suggest that you experiment with (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
 
(...) It could be that I am misinterpreting it, but the original post seemed to ask the question "How do you get more power out of the Lego motors?" It was not about gearing or rotation sensors at all. These things are important but the implication (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
 
(...) Have you tried building a transmission? Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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