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motor current trick
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Wed, 27 Oct 1999 03:03:25 GMT
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Jonathan Pennington <jwp@awod^NoSpam^.com>
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I've got a great R/C track vehicle that I want to use as a robot
chassis, problem is the 1 Amp motors. I was going to use Kam's
suggestion, but then I saw the Sonar schematics. I noticed that the
sonar schematics have power coming from the motor outputs in parallel to
increase the current to the sensors range. Can I do that with a motor?
It seems that I could code it so that one call starts two motor outputs
simultaneously, and run the outputs in parallel to get a current pretty
near 1A. That's even simpler than Kam's idea.
Of course, I'm assuming that since I haven't seen it brought up before,
that it's not a good option, I just like to keep things simple. I don't
want to stress anything, but it seems to me that that would work. Any
ideas?
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 | | Re: motor current trick
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| A couple of easy things that you can do to increase the current capabilities of the motor drivers are: (1) replace the L293Ds with SN754410 chips (available from Acroname), and (2) piggyback one H-bridge chip on top of the other to handle almost (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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