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Re: Toy motors
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:09:14 GMT
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Original-From:
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Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.mit[avoidspam].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
+----------------+ +----------------+
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| servo out+------
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| gnd+------
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+----------------+
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.
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> Good luck,
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> Jan.
>
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| 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 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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