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Unread 08-04-2016, 07:57
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Al Skierkiewicz Al Skierkiewicz is offline
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Re: How old is your oldest robot

Here is a look at the control system mentioned earlier in this thread...
That little gold box in the second picture is the Tekin speed controllers we had to use before IFI came along with the 883. It is about 1 x 2" and would smoke at about 20 amps.
We used drill batteries to power the drive system in those robots because we used actual drills to drive the wheels as you can see in picture 3. Oh, and we didn't have any way to distribute power, no PDP, no breaker panel.
These pictures were taken during LRI training this year.
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