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Re: Is an RCX Output Amplfier, possible ?
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:28:01 GMT
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Xanthra47 wrote:

    I'm a not an electrical engineer and I couldn't even play one on TV :
Ok.  That being said, would it be possible to amplify the PWM output from
the RCX to run multiple (2-4) motors off a single output connector using an
external nicad battery ?  Can it be as simple as a pair of transistors and
diodes or would it have to be opto-isolated etc, etc  ?
                                             Thanks,
                                            -Xanthra47

http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm/lego_ms2.html

Gives you 6 outputs from 3.

Dean
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  Re: Is an RCX Output Amplfier, possible ?
 
Dean, Your motor multiplexer is cool, but not really what I'm after. What I need is a way to have a single output drive several motors in the same direction at the same time (IE Hook them all up in parallel.) After reading some of the posts here and (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Is an RCX Output Amplfier, possible ?
 
I'm a not an electrical engineer and I couldn't even play one on TV : Ok. That being said, would it be possible to amplify the PWM output from the RCX to run multiple (2-4) motors off a single output connector using an external nicad battery ? Can (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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