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Re: Motors on Sensor ports
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:40:32 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Michael Purvis wrote:
> I'm just curious if there's any harm in connecting motors to active sensor
> ports... I know you don't get very much voltage/speed/torque, but you do get
> interesting readings that can be used to detect when the motor stalls. This is
> potentially a very useful feature, but I want to make sure it won't screw up my
> brick.
One thing you will find, is that you can't drive the motor backwards. Well, it
won't go one direction. The direction depends on the wiring.
Actually, that's just if you hook it to a motor port, AND a sensor port.
I don't know how bad it is, but I expect the RCX is designed to handle it.
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| (...) Yeah... I wonder if that's a hardware limitation... (...) Well, that defeats the purpose... and I'm almost positive that powering a sensor port with 9v is a bad idea. (...) I dunno. Is it possible (I'm still in gr12 physics) that a circuit (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I'm just curious if there's any harm in connecting motors to active sensor ports... I know you don't get very much voltage/speed/torque, but you do get interesting readings that can be used to detect when the motor stalls. This is potentially a very (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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