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Re: Motorized Lego Steering
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:35:17 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Steve Lane writes:
In lugnet.technic, Todd A. Schroeder writes:
Is there a way to stop the motor from exerting force on the gear rack once
the steering has reached its furthest point? i.e. How do you stop the
steering mechanism from going to far?

Their are two methods I can think of.

The first is the one I used on my Rotinoff. Simply use the large pulley
wheels for your transmisson. Use elastic bands in the gear down mechanism
and when the steering reaches the stop the small pulley will simply spin.
You have to get the tension right so that you get adequate steering power.
To much tension and the motor stalls.

[snipped]
Steve

That pulley method immediately reminded me of a long since past Technic set
that used it for motorized steering:

http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/8000/8860/8860-37.html

Could be smaller thanks to the red mirco motor.  (I sure don't recall one in
1980!)

Adrian Egli



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  Re: Motorized Lego Steering - micromotor not up to the task
 
Set 8082 - motorized buildign set included both a micromotor and a car with mircromotorized wheel and rack steering. The motor is simply too slow and powerless to steer in any reasonable time. The mechanism also used rubber bands (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Motorized Lego Steering
 
(...) Their are two methods I can think of. The first is the one I used on my Rotinoff. Simply use the large pulley wheels for your transmisson. Use elastic bands in the gear down mechanism and when the steering reaches the stop the small pulley (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.technic)

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