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Re: Technic Parallel-Motor Assembly Question
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:49:41 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Gaurav Thakur writes:
> > and am planning on using six to eight of the old 9V non-geared motors to do
> > this.
Six to eight! you really are raving mad! :-)
> I found that 2 motors from 1 battery box did increase torque, though not by
> heaps. But there's nothing stopping you connecting multiple battery boxes in
> parallel too - just gotta be careful you always switch them on & off together!
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
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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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| (...) 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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