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Re: Suggestions wanted - auto-centring motor drive
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Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:10:59 GMT
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The idea is that, for steering a car, you provide motor power in either
direction and the car steers.  If you overrun the motor, the mechanism can start
to slip so it maintains the steering lock.  When you stop the motor, instead of
staying in place, the steering re-centres itself mechanically.

See http://mocpages.com/moc.php/10873 for such a solution. But it works well
only with low friction mini-motors.

Philo



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  Re: Suggestions wanted - auto-centring motor drive
 
(...) I wasn't aware of that part - it certainly looks useful for centring steering. I'll add it to my wanted list for next time I visit Bricklink, thanks. However, what I was looking for wasn't improvements in the restoring spring. It was a way of (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.technic)

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  Suggestions wanted - auto-centring motor drive
 
I was wondering if anyone had a good, small technical solution to this problem. It's for applications in remote-control steering and in other mechanical actuators, like the tipping unloaders of Steve's GBC train wagons. The idea is that, for (...) (17 years ago, 17-Aug-07, to lugnet.technic)

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