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Re: Motor speed
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:15:51 GMT
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Original-From:
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Bruce Boyes <bboyes@systronix.%AntiSpam%com>
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Quoting Brass Tilde <brasstilde@insightbb.com>:
> I've just gotten my RIS 2.0, and I've noticed that the two motors appear
> to
> operate at slightly different speeds. Is this something that is usual?
Yes.
If you are using multiple motors to drive a small robot one way to compensate is with rotation sensors, or use a single motor and a differential to get the robot to drive straight. Or maybe use multiple motors and a differentially-driven single rotation sensor to detect the difference in the two motor speeds.
Bruce
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| (...) I figgered that was the case. <sigh> (...) At the moment, it doesn't interfere with anything, as I am just starting to build things and am just now building the roverbot and going through the various "challenges". I'll keep those in mind (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I think in RCX you get 100 levels. We use JCX which gives us 255 levels. Either one should be plenty. Bruce ------- WWW.SYSTRONIX.COM ---...--- Real embedded Java and much more High speed 8051 systems +1-801-534-1017 Salt Lake City, USA (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've just gotten my RIS 2.0, and I've noticed that the two motors appear to operate at slightly different speeds. Is this something that is usual, or am I looking at something that deserves replacement. I can live with the "suck it up" option, it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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