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Re: **lego motors?**
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:48:28 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <(lmartins@marktest.pt)NoSpam()>
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I've been thinking in building an automatic gearbox with two speeds.
If the motor was making too much strength it would lower the gear, and if it's running too fast it would increase the gear.
Is there any design like that already built?
Maybe with a worm gear running forward and backwards engaging in a few gears, with a rubber band pushing it to one of the sides...?


Laurentino Martins

[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]

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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: **lego motors?**
 
Laurentino Martins wrote in message <4.1.19990412164203....90.220>... (...) gears, with a rubber band pushing it to one of the sides...? There has been a couple of versions of just what you describe, however I don't have the URLs. Sorry... about (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: **lego motors?**
 
(...) Quite simply, no two motors run at exactly the same speed for a given power level. (Slight differences in the wheels, or flexibility in the axles will also produce the same effect, although probably much less noticeable) There's no simple (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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