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Re: Replacement Firmware Released
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:22:41 GMT
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Juergen Stuber <juergen@&NoMoreSpam&jstuber.net>
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Hi Dan,

dan miller <danbmil99@yahoo.com> writes:

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.

that is strange, are you sure?

My guess is that the 'brake' function (shorting out the
motor) is only being effected during the 'on' phase of the
PWM routines.

That is what the ROM routines do, and firmwares like Lejos
that rely on it.  I would have thought the standard firmware
does it in the same way.


Jürgen

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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 (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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