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sorry to post this here, but i really cant find an answer online how do i unsubscribe form the lugnet robotics list? r (19 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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OK. Let's start over again: What I should have said is that I believe that if you have two vehicles each weighing 2 lbs (the maximum allowed by the rules), one rolling, one "walking", the probablity of making a "stronger" forwardly mobile unit is (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I see a high amount of torque required on the Lego motors also. In general, and if done poorly, all you have is a bot with a stalled motor for one minute running at full power. Clutch gears could help, but it would have to be done in such a (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So you have (in essence) a walking robot - but you wouldn't want to halve your traction by having only half of your feet on the ground at any one time - you'd want to have a robot with LOTS of feet and pick up just some tiny fraction of them (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I read the entire thread, and the rules and ask the question: Why must it ROLL at all? If friction is the name of the game, and if the wheels (tires) are the parts that have the "stickiest" qualities, then why not maximize the surface area of those. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, the driver IC is current-limited to about 500mA (and thermal limited too), so it is very hard to destroy! (...) I have used NiMH batteries a lot on RCX, the only adverse effect I noticed is that the power available on motors is nearly (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have not seen them on the RCX, but I have on other devices, where power transisotrs have died. Its all to do (I think) with the characteristics under load, and the fact that larger spikes in current may occur with rechargeables. If the IC (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Danny, (...) Have you seen real failures using some rechargeables batteries? I believe that the RCX motor driver IC is really foolproof, and I don't think anything could be destroyed using various kind of batteries (provided that the 9 or 10 (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Depending on the kind of rechargeables you are using, they generally have significantly different characteristics. They also often output a slightly lower voltage (about 1.2 or 1.3v per cell as opposed to the expected 1.5). If you have a (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks for your replies. Both are RCX2 and I use the Robolab software. In Administrator / RCX settings you can set the RCX IR-power setting to high or low, but both were already in high. After some testing I found out that the main problem are (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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