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Subject: 
RE: Using the Motor as a Tachometer
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:54:23 GMT
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> > In fact, this is how the RCX motor controller internally sets the motor up
> > for "brake" instead of "off"...
> 
> No way!  Really?  Too cool!  Does it do this with some kind of switching
> relay or is it purely electronic?

Totally electronic...but we used to do it with switching relays...use a
non-proportional font for the following...


                 /+------------ V+ from power supply
             +--/
             |    +---+
  +------+---+        | <- This is really a low value resistor
--|MOTOR |            |     not connected to V-
  +------+---+   /+---+---------V- from power supply
             +--/     |
                  +---+

              RELAY

This is how it used to be done with a relay...if you open up the
short circuit, you get the floating effect.

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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  Re: Using the Motor as a Tachometer
 
(...) No way! Really? Too cool! Does it do this with some kind of switching relay or is it purely electronic? --Todd (27 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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