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multiple motors
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:33:55 GMT
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Hey ya'll
I'm building my first sumo bot, and have a suber basic question. What happens
when you hook two motors to the same output of the rcx.
This answer should hopefully help me decide weather the bot is made with 2 or 4
drive motors. currently i have 2 motors, but the deign i'm using could easily
be adapted to fit 4 if there is any advantage to doing so.
thanks for any help you can give me.
-tk
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: multiple motors
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| (...) Travis, I've had a reasonable amount of success building sumo robots, and I always try to use 2 motors per port. (some rules don't allow that) It's my understanding that the motors draw ~250 milliamp when stalled (that's when they draw the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | Re: multiple motors
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| (...) Hi Travis, As you can see in my motors page ((URL) paragraph "Getting maximum mechanical power from RCX output"), two 71427 motors per RCX output provides the greatest mechanical power, and should be "RCX-fry-safe", see also "Protections" (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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