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Re: Anyone know how to build a stall sensor?
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Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:02:30 GMT
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Paul,
If you put a small lamp in serie with the motor , you can monitor the
current drawn by thr motor through a lightsensor.
The more current the more the light, there is only one thing you have less
motorpower.
Gretings,
Rik
"Paul Andrews" <paul@jools.net> schreef in bericht
news:GJ7GJw.GI3@lugnet.com...
> Hi,
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> I'd like to be able to monitor the current being drawn by a motor using • the
> RCX (not the CyberMaster :-( ), so that I can detect stalls and possibly
> spins. I can't believe that this is particularly hard but I can't find any
> references to one on the web and I'm not a hardware kind of guy so I don't
> really know where to start.
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> Has anyone done this? Can anyone point me at schematics/build • instructions?
>
> Regards - Paul.
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| Hi, I'd like to be able to monitor the current being drawn by a motor using the RCX (not the CyberMaster :-( ), so that I can detect stalls and possibly spins. I can't believe that this is particularly hard but I can't find any references to one on (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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