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Re: Four motors at the same speed?
Posted by Dodd Stacy at 1/13/2001 4:16 PM EST
Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE. In Reply to: Four motors at the same speed? Posted by Mark Garver on 1/13/2001 3:18 PM EST: : Can you design a drivetrain that allows you to use four motors? Simple response: yes. :The motors I am think of are the drill and Fisher Price motors. I would put the drills in back and the Fisher Price in front. In a no load simulation you could get all four motors to run at the same speed, but what about under load? Gearing the motors so that all wheels had similar no-load surface speed (they don't even need to be the same diameter wheels) is the main requirement. :Would only two motors drive and the other two act as generators? No. This would only happen with induction type (non-synchronous) motors, like the ones in the kit, if one pair of motors was geared so "tall" that they (while under significant load) drove the bot at such a high speed that the other pair was being rotated by the moving bot (overdriven or overrun) at a speed faster than their no-load speed. Sorry for the long sentence. Go for it, Mark. Good luck. Dodd |
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