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Re: Reducing the speed of motors

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Originally Posted by nckureghian14 View Post
reducing the voltage?
No, that would mean less power. Technically, this never happens anyway, but i don't think we need to get into that.

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
Increase the size of your wheel sprockets...
Yes, this allows you to leave the code alone and still get full power. To cut the speed in half (approximately), the wheel sprockets should be about twice the size. As a bonus, you also get more torque.

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Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb) View Post
Thanks. I guess I forgot to mention that we wanted to go that fast but not all the time. Now we can choose how fast to go.
OOPS, I missed that. In that case, forget what I said.
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