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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 (...) (26 years ago, 16-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 (...) (26 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 (26 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 (...) (26 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 (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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