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Re: offtopicy sort of thing
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:32:14 GMT
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I parallel two motors frequently with no ill effects. There is no generation
taking place. It will use more battery current for the two motors than it
would for one, but it is also doing more work.
--
Bob Fay
rfay@we.mediaone.net
The Shop
http://www.geocities.com/bobfay_98
"Cameron Hayne" <hayne@crim.ca> wrote in message
news:FoI9x2.3xp@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Leonard Stiles writes:
> > Take two 9v dc lego motors...
> > [and] ...interconnect their
> > inputs with a lego wire thingy. Now turn one motor axle manually
> > and watch what happens on the other.
>
> I was just trying out having 4 motors to power 4 wheels (one per wheel)
> and I saw this effect. I had the two motors on the right side both • attached
> to output A and the two motors on the left side both attached to input C.
> But now I am worried that maybe this electricity generation is possibly • going
> to be bad for the batteries or something. If I hook the motors up one way
> I guess it is generating electricity which flows in the same direction as
> that from the betteries but if I did it the other way, it would be flowing
> the opposite way to that from the batteries.
> Is this something to worry about?
> Or is there some other bad thing that will come about from hooking up
> two motors to one RCX output?
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