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Re: Tachocount
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Date: 
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:38:40 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <LMARTINS@spamcakeMARKTEST.PT>
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At least there's one thing that CyberMaster proved - That 3 inputs is not the limit of the H8 or even all the LEGO PBricks.

Clearly CyberMaster have 5 inputs, although 2 of them are fixed just like the 2 fixed motors (which is not as bad as it sounds)

On a second thought, if they are "standard" inputs, why LEGO gave them different addresses in memory?
....

Another subject:

Any of you a have tried boosting the radio tower range?
What about the CyberMaster unit range?


Laurentino Martins


At 18:16 11-11-1998 Wednesday , you wrote:
According to the Technical Reference, Tachocount counts the number of
revolutions of the motor shafts (of the two built-in Cybermaster motors
ONLY).
I fiddled a liitle with it, but it doesn't seem too useful, first of all
because the internal motors are only practical to use for wheels, and second
because the tachocounter doensn't distinguish direction. So you can only use
it as a feedback input while the motor is driven by the program, so you know
the direction. I used such a feedback loop to make my Crusher walk a little
straighter (it heavily curves when both motors are at full power - by
tachocounting one wheel stops for a moment if the other one has done less
rotations.)

Thinking of/working at  some kind of 'stepper motor' apllication.

Eric Brok

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In message <4.1.19981111182607....ktest.pt>, Laurentino Martins <lmartins@marktest.pt> writes (...) Good question. I had hoped that the PBTxPower command would allow a higher setting but it appears that it is for 'reducing' the IR when two (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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According to the Technical Reference, Tachocount counts the number of revolutions of the motor shafts (of the two built-in Cybermaster motors ONLY). I fiddled a liitle with it, but it doesn't seem too useful, first of all because the internal motors (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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