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Hi everyone...I am working on a Technic project (MOC) and have run into a bit of a problem. I basically need to use several motors running in parallel to provide lots of power to a single gear-train and am planning on using six to eight of the old (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I understand totally! The problem you've got is reducing friction. The un-geared motors are worse, because your speed reduction train will inevitably have much more friction than the reduction box Lego put in the geared motors. I ended up also (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Six to eight! you really are raving mad! :-) (...) So are you saying then, that 2 motors with 2 battery boxes gives the most torque? Because I was led to beleive it didn't matter. Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Perhaps one motor at each end of an axel. That would make three or four pairs with less gears. Something like this: (URL) quick and dirty pic to show what I mean] Be sure to connect all the wires correctly so that they actually work with each (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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nah. That ain't mad. *MAD* is when you put 8 of the new gearmotors in parrallel, gear them down and power them with a pair of 9.6V RC battery packs. The resulting dual-differential drive, tracked robot chassis can move quite a bit of weight with no (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Yes please do have pics soon!! Gary Xanthra47 <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:GFD0xn.KoB@lugnet.com... (...) ... (...) to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Thanks for the replies! I think I now have some ideas of how this can done... (...) I thought that it might be something with the way the gears are arranged but could not really find a way around it...adding in some sort of lubricant seems like a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I can just imagine, Nicad RC Batteries put out far more power than standard AA Alkalines etc. Don't last as long though. (Capacity) -- Jason King LugNet #665 Xanthra47 <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:GFD0xn.KoB@lugnet.com... (...) ... (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Standard tracks or non-lego tracks? I'm planning to use the dual diff setup on my next tracked chassis. Steve (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have not tried my theory in practise but less gears and lower friction is always a prio. Try to keep things as simple as possible :) (...) LOL! Good luck with your project, hope you wont get sidetracked :) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yes I forgot about that - I did this in my (here we go again) tower crane (www.lugnet.com/~469...wercrane/) except I put bevel gears on each motor, both meshing with another bevel gear in the middle. Used it on the platform rotation (with old (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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I used the "rubber" tracks like the ones that come with the RIS. They shake the chassis something awful at high speeds, though. The pics from the onboard VC look like you're driving it through the epicenter of an earth quake : ) I'm thinking of (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The shaking is caused by the rib on the track going over the wheel. When the ribs dead centre the vehicle will be at it's highest point as the vehicle lifts itself onto the rib. As the rib moves away the vehicle 'falls' back onto the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Agreed, but then I might as well just use big wheels : ) (...) combined. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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