Thread: Homemade resitor
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Re: Homemade resitor
About two weeks ago we experimented with switching a 4 ohm resistance in series with the two motors in parallel. A lamp switch was in parallel with the resisitor. When the switch hit the top plate of the tower it opened and placed the resistance in the circuit. The minbot came back down the tower better than with back emf. Because of all the hub bub about light switches and resistors, we opted to use limit switches and back emf.