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michaelkubina / SpotMicroESP32

My take on a SpotMicro with an optimized design for supportfree 3D-printing. It utilizes an ESP32-DevKitC for the low-level control of the electronics. The heavy computation will be made by external devices, which in return have the power to command the robot.
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Dual sided cable battery support and motherboard enhancements #13

Closed JonathanMortes closed 3 years ago

JonathanMortes commented 3 years ago

Hello, may I suggest a dual channel for the 2 cables (power+balancing) for separate cabled batteries. This will utilize the same board but would use the opening. Also, make it so the top of the internal supporting channel is not closed for easy cable passthrough. Thanks!

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michaelkubina commented 3 years ago

Hello Jonathan,

the idea is to have the battery permanently mounted in place and charged via balancer (even though it takes longer) - no need for opening the robot in any way. In the circuitry mountingplate is a small hole, to route your T-Connector extensions out from the bottom to your on-off switch. What you suggest, would require some kind of junction for the cable, where one strand goes into the circuit and one hangs loose for the charging and is being routet in a way, so that its accessable through some hole.

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Since thinking of such an solution, designing and prototyping binds a lot of time (which i sadly dont have that much of), i would leave this to others - i think it would be a great mod, but i dont think i will be the one making it. I leave this ticket open for other, who maybe like to go for it.