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Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:07:22 GMT
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Joel Shafer wrote:

> Instead of trying to connect two motors to the same axle using the crown
> gears, why not attach the two motors to the same axle using axle
> connectors.  This would avoid the slipping problem that you mentioned and
> should have less frictional losses than the backwards differential solution.
I might try that to see, but as I said in the other post, that
differential force will still be there, which offends my sensibilities
:-) Still, it'd be worth a try to find out.

Dave Johnson



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  Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
 
(...) It's true that using the differential provides a kind of niftyness. And that can be an important feature of Lego models, even if you're not actually gaining anything. (27 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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