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Originally Posted by Travis Covington
From what I can tell, it looks like there is no support on the other side of the globe motor shaft. It may just be the picture you showed, but in that configuration there is a significant side load that (typically) results in the globe motor releasing its magic smoke 
If I am incorrect, sorry about that... Just thought I would note that... its an easy fix.
Otherwise it is VERY original! Looks good! |
Well, you're right about that. I've worried about it some, but since steering is such light duty cycle, I don't think we'll have a problem. Also, the side load is very close to the motor - it would be much worse with a longer shaft. I'd guess in a typical game we'll turn the wheels an aggregate of a few revolutions, maybe a few tens at the upper bound. In our setup, the globe motors rotate 2.8x as fast as you steer the wheels, so maybe we'll get on the order of 100 total turns of rotation in a game. I'm thinking the motor won't suffer much with that much use. Does this disagree with your intutition or experience?
Bill
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21-01-2004, 01:43
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