Victor control with Edurobot??

Bob_Steele · February 18, 2003, 10:19am

Is there any way to use the Edurobot controller with Victors?

We would like to have a driving robot to practice with…we have a dummy wooden one…and now that we can keep the Operator interface we would like to use the edurobot interface on it.

I don’t think we can do this but I would like to know for sure.

We are a rookie team and do not have any other robot interface to use…

thanks

Bob Steele

yangotang · February 19, 2003, 11:15am

The motors of the EduBot have victors built in.

Greg_Ross · February 19, 2003, 11:53am

*Originally posted by yangotang *
**The motors of the EduBot have victors built in. **

No, they don’t. They are powered by the same PWM signal that the Victors use, but the similarities stop there.

I don’t think the Victor will work on the EduBot battery pack. And the EduBot probably would not work well on a 12v battery. But I think it should work for the Victor to draw its power from a 12v battery, while connecting the PWM cable to the EduBot.

Bob_Steele · February 19, 2003, 12:39pm

So it might be possible to just power the victors from the regular 12 volt battery and just connect the PWM from the edurobot controller?

Who could I check with to find out if this won’t hurt the edurobot controller?

thanks for the idea!!!

Bob

Joe_Ross · February 19, 2003, 12:48pm

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We were able to power the EDU bots motors from the robot controller and a 9v battery. You are just reversing it and I don’t think there will be any trouble.