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Re: homemade speed controlllers (for school project)
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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Stephen,
I am not sure how your cars are laid out but in the US, the motor drives both wipers and is relatively powerful. I would guess it may run stall current as high as the Chalupa or Drill motor, about 100 amps. Your homemade controllers should be designed to handle that much current.
last year we used some from a ford fiesta, they ran fine on a victor 554... the may not be a robot to put them in now.... depends what happens on this wednesday, as we havn't started on it. but we'll see
Right now i'm just researching some basic therory
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