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Re: "Servo" Driver for NQC
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:41:06 GMT
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"Stephen Edwards" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:3C56AA4F.4090501@cs.vt.edu...

when it gets within a certain number of counts on the rotation
sensor, jumps to a slow speed by pulsing the motor (on, wait 1, off, • wait
1).

I take it you are really doing on...float...on...float cycles
with your motor instead of using "off", which actually performs
active braking (on/off cycles are almost guaranteed to give serious
mechanical jitters).

Nope, I'm using Off, because I need to brake the motor to pulse it. Floating
it does almost nothing - the inertia of the motor carries it on just as if
it wsan't powered. To get a low speed using this method, you must Off
(brake) the motor.

with lightly loaded motors, however.  Finally, gear trains can have
huge effects too, so be sure yours can be driven backwards easily and
smoothly, so that the momentum of the moving pieces works for you
during "float" periods.

No problems there, I just need to find someone who's doing the same thing as
I am (pseudo-servo with a rotation sensor).

I find it hard to believe (and admitedly, quite frustrating) no one else is
doing this...?

    Iain



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  Re: "Servo" Driver for NQC
 
(...) I have to disagree with your approach. Even at low speeds, alternating between pushing on the gas and stamping on the brake isn't the way to drive smoothly. Perhaps you need to gear the machine differently and use less power during the ON (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: "Servo" Driver for NQC
 
Rebel Transcanner wrote: > (...) I take it you are really doing on...float...on...float cycles with your motor instead of using "off", which actually performs active braking (on/off cycles are almost guaranteed to give serious mechanical jitters). (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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