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Subject: 
Motor power?
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Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:16:06 GMT
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When I set the motor power (both in RIS and nqc), I expected the speed
of the motor to be proportional to the power setting (i.e., higher power
setting makes motor turn faster and vice versa). However, what I see is
that the power setting appears to have no impact on motor speed.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is it just that I can't get there from
here? Any insights would be appreciated. (Yeah, I could do the PWM thing
in RCX code, but I hoped that the firmware did that sort of thing for
you; it would be faster and more efficient in firmware).

TIA

Cheers,
danm



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  Re: Motor power?
 
=>From: Dan McCabe <danm@seanet.com> =>... =>When I set the motor power (both in RIS and nqc), I expected the speed =>of the motor to be proportional to the power setting (i.e., higher power =>setting makes motor turn faster and vice versa). (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Motor power?
 
The firmware does do PWM. One reason you aren't seeing much difference is that the motor has an internal flywheel. When the pulse is "on", the motor revs up to speed, then this speed is maintained by the flywheel during the "off" pulse. If you put a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Motor power? (LONG! with code example)
 
(My apologies if this is a duplicate. I tried to send it to the lugnet news server, but that derver doesn't seem to like HTML in news message) Y'all, Yesterday, I asked how to use motor power to control the motor's speed. The answer that I got was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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