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Subject: 
Re: Toy motors
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:09:14 GMT
Original-From: 
Fred G. Martin <FREDM@MEDIA.spamcakeMIT.EDU>
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right, this is a good answer.  you buy a device called an "electronic
speed controller".  this connects like a servo to the HB (3 wire
connection) and has outputs to drive high current DC motors.  you also
connect a separate power supply to the device.  so the configuration
is:

    Handy Board
  +----------------+   +----------------+
  |                |
  |       servo out+------
  |                |
  |             gnd+------
  |                |
  +----------------+


In your message you said:
> I tried to use the special RC motor drivers for RC race cars with good luck,
> they simply connect to a servo output of the handy board and they work great
> and you can get them in a thousand different configurations like fwd/rev and
> brakes. They work with PWM so they won't really get very hot and they can
> easily handle the high current for these motors.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Jan.
> 



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  Re: Toy motors
 
I tried to use the special RC motor drivers for RC race cars with good luck, they simply connect to a servo output of the handy board and they work great and you can get them in a thousand different configurations like fwd/rev and brakes. They work (...) (28 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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