Subject:
|
Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:43:05 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
547 times
|
| |
|
|
Mark Haye <mhaye(@)tivoli(.)com> wrote in message
news:GA9p5z.JwG@lugnet.com...
> I used to regularly drive LEGO 9V motors at about 12V with no observed
> damage. I assume the increased power/torque would be proportional to the
> voltage, i.e. 33% more voltage gets you 33% more power/torque.
33% more voltage should also give you 33% more current, so power (i.e.
voltage times current) should increase by 77%. But higher currents give
higher temperatures, which could damage the motor and would probably make it
less work less efficiently.
http://www.teamdelta.com/roboglad/ says that most of the robots ran the
motors at 18v, and the only problem was a molten battery box due to removing
the "thermally resettable solid-state fuse", so it *should* be alright but I
wouldn't want to try it myself :-)
--
Philip Taylor
philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
|
| Yes, but they used more prats then the RIS contains :/ They used two battery boxes to gain 18V using this coupling: (URL) had a motorcontrolled polarity switch to walk around the voltage limits in the RCX. /Tobbe (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: More juice out of the standard motors.
|
| I used to regularly drive LEGO 9V motors at about 12V with no observed damage. I assume the increased power/torque would be proportional to the voltage, i.e. 33% more voltage gets you 33% more power/torque. However, I don't know how to get more than (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
16 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
