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I have a tracked bot and I can notice the difference in speed when I set the motors to 1 or 4 or 8. John A. Donaldson (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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=>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)
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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)
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(...) So is the old 8720(5114) motor more sensitive to the speed setting, due to its lack of a flywheel? Hao-yang Wang (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks to all for responding. The event that spurred me to ask the question in the first place is that I wanted to use differential power settings to turn (steer) a tracked robot. Unfortunately, this appear to have no effect on the robot's ability (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - you can actually "hear" the change in speed as you alter power levels. Dave (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(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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In article <36CB9D28.446A4B5B@seanet.com>, Dan McCabe <danm@seanet.com> writes (...) And quite right too. (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have just updated my website and added a new page outlining PLANO Tackle boxes and how to modify them for that few Technic parts that just won't fit. Have a look at <www.bmts.com/~rhempel> and follow the clearly marked path on the left to the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.storage)
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DOH... Sorry the link should be <http:/www.bmts.com/~rhempel> The link below works, it is just not clickable... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.storage)
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OK, I'm a little jittery this morning, try (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.storage)
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You can count me as yet another AFOL that "discovered" that Plano "tackle" boxes were *really* intended for Lego storage! The only thing I have to add to the discussion is that K-mart also sells some "milk" storage crates that perfectly hold these (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.storage)
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