Subject:
|
Re: Boosting power in a gear train
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:09:15 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
4885 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.robotics, steve <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
>
>
> So use a rotation sensor to sense the position of the weak input - and
> use a NXT motor to track that position and drive all of the gears. You
> can change the ratio of the input angle to the NXT motor's angle
> in software and thereby have the first stage of the gearing be
> cancelled out in software so you can make best use of the torque
> of the NXT motor at speeds at which it is most effective.
How much torque do I need to drive the rotation sensor?
This was my first plan of action, but I was limited because I don't have a
rotation sensor other than the NXT motors themselves! From a purist point of
view, I would really like a mechanical solution; once I go to sending feedback
via the wires, all the really cool mechanics I've worked on are for naught!
Do you think I could just use the nxt motors somehow or is that too much torque?
We are talking about an amount of torque less than (purely hypothetically, of
course) a Lego soccer ball falling 3 studs from the center of an axel. I guess
that would be 3 stud-balls of torque!
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Boosting power in a gear train
|
| (...) The original Mindstorms rotation sensor turns very easily - I think that three stud-balls of torque would be plenty to turn it. The more recent NXT stuff is another matter - I don't have a NXT system so I have no clue as to the problems of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Boosting power in a gear train
|
| (...) ... (...) So use a rotation sensor to sense the position of the weak input - and use a NXT motor to track that position and drive all of the gears. You can change the ratio of the input angle to the NXT motor's angle in software and thereby (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
|
8 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
