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Re: Replacement Firmware Released
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:55:43 GMT
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> 1) braking seems to be proportional to power (at power=0, brake is not very effective) -- Lego
> firmware appears to brake at full power no matter what the power setting is.  My guess is that the
> 'brake' function (shorting out the motor) is only being effected during the 'on' phase of the PWM
> routines.

Agreed. Beeing able to control break strength is an interesting feature, but it
is incompatible with standard firmware. Maybe it should be controlled by a
variable similar to bFloatDuringInactiveMotorPWM



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  Re: Replacement Firmware Released
 
I'm pretty sure that variable strength braking is in fact the implementation in the standard firmware. Braking is proportional to the current setting of the power level. I think there may even be some ancient posts somewhere in Lugnet on this topic. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Replacement Firmware Released
 
I too am impressed with the amount of work that went into this release. After a few days playing around with it, I have a few comments: 1) braking seems to be proportional to power (at power=0, brake is not very effective) -- Lego firmware appears (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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