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Re: Fisher Price Motor Power
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Originally Posted by RyanJK
... Do you guys have any tips on how to make sure that our motors run simultaneously? In my expereience, with the CIMs at least, even though your programming is set to activate the motors at the same time, they still don't power simultaneously. With the design for our flipper, its really important to have the motors working simultaneously.
Thanks for all your help so far!
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To team-up two FP's mechanically you might try the new Double Doozy gearhead from AndyMark.
Each motor must have its own approved speed controller (see <R49> and <R55>) so getting them to work together electrically will be a matter for the programmers.  This should not be difficult, unless the two motors (accidentally) get wired so that their torques oppose each other! If that happens you can fry one or both very quickly.
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