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| Hello all, So, how much load has anyone successfully placed on a micromotor? I used a micromotor to steer 2 tandem axles in one of my model of a sideloading container truck (see olivierg.50megs.com/...eering.htm for details). When the truck was (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| I have not used the micromotors for any steering assemblies but the geared motors work very well. Using short, low power (and counted so to get back to center easily) pulses I've had no problems either moving or stationary. Getting them to fit into (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| In my latest model I found the same thing. It's a mobile crane with 3 steering axles, 2 front, 1 counter. It would only steer while moving, and still with difficulty. The trick would be to put more gears on, but then steering would be very slow. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| I used them on my Silver 8458. They will slip and stall when the truck is not moving. Too much torque required. (URL) Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) <ogerou@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GB16o4.4G1@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I had a setup like this on my mobile crane which worked pretty well - it would steer when the vehicle was stationary, but was fairly slow, although not slow enough to attract adverse comments from non-lego "operators". You can see some details (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| "Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AC83702.733515...h.ac.uk... <snip> (...) </snip> Still waiting for pictures of the real thing Jennifer.... when will it be on your site? Duq (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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