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| (...) Hmm, Ok. Since it sounds like I'm not risking the motor, and I have lots of 8 tooth gears, I'm going to experiment by leaving the motor on for a while, and seeing what happens. thanks very much for the information, guys! This is exactly the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Yep, and with this one using an 8-tooth gear straight on the rack, even with a solid structure you'd be very likely to break the gear. If you can supply an accurately timed "pulse", that would reduce the risk, but with the geared motors, it (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I've always been hard on my motors, stalling them often. It's never seem to affect their performance, or even damage them. The difficult part of stalling a geared motor is containing the large forces generated on the structure surrounding the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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| That is a very neat way to let people see what your show was like. Greaqt work. Michel (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| (...) Ok, I guess I see that, although I could only find a couple designs, and they seemed much more complicated that necessary. (...) Hmm. Is motor damage likely to occur? The intention with this would be for either an operator or an RCX to briefly (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
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