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Brainstorm of New "The Gun" For Controlling Brushless Motors #1

Closed johnthibert closed 2 months ago

johnthibert commented 6 months ago

We need to brainstorm ideas/features/characteristics of how we want to build this.

Some questions we may need to initially answer are:

  1. How many motors do we want to run?
  2. Do we want to be able to power Falcons?
  3. Do we want to be able to control regular DC motors?
  4. How do we want to power this? Robot battery or something else?
  5. ETC

Come up with initial ideation drawings and things we may need to build this.

Assigned to all of mechanical!!!

zjs0221 commented 5 months ago

Link to Chief Delphi: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/brushless-motor-controller-tester/392593/22?page=2

Ideas:

Questions:

  1. How many motors do we want to run?

Both a single motor and many at the same time (5?)

  1. Do we want to be able to power Falcons?

Yes

  1. Do we want to be able to control regular DC motors?

Probably? We do have a lot of them if we want to do separate prototypes to test many ideas at once.

  1. How do we want to power this? Robot battery or something else?

Definitely robot battery for the panel, maybe drill battery for handheld.

Tasks:

h0im3die commented 5 months ago

The only problem I would see with using a drill battery over a robot battery is amperage. Most drill battery's cant supply even 20 amps, let alone the 40 amps we run most of our motors at.

marcotron64 commented 5 months ago

June 4th Meeting Summary

Outputs needed:

To-Do:

johnthibert commented 5 months ago

Proof as to what I mentioned at the meeting yesterday (wanted to see what he'd say): Image

quizque commented 5 months ago

If you need bucks I have a box full that work up to I think 30v. I can bring them Thursday. The resister divider would probably still work but it might brown out lol.On Jun 5, 2024, at 7:15 AM, John Thibert @.***> wrote: Proof as to what I mentioned at the meeting yesterday (wanted to see what he'd say): image.png (view on web)

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