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why werent these used with airman's butler robot, as opposed to his choice of wheelchair motors?
...( when the time comes.... )
Quote from: airman00 on December 30, 2008, 05:41:13 PM...( when the time comes.... )Judgement Day???
True, they are geared heavily, run on 12 VDC, and the works...a typical windshield wiper motor can handle up to about 17 lbs-foot at forty rotations per minute. I was originally going to use them for my robot NINA, but she was getting to be a big robot! (Bigger than I intended), and I was really beginning to doubt that 17 lb-foot was going to move her. I happened to have wheelchair motors I bought from ebay earlier, so I move her to those. (I'm saving those two windshield wiper motors for another project. Maybe a lightweight trashcan rover thingie, once I find something useful for it to do.)But I did hear they're not very power efficient. And they're expensive, (unless you get them from a auto junk shop for $20 each). Plus, I think the wiring is really confusing for some of them...But sure! They're be great for small, to medium weight robots. Maybe even some heavy-medium robots. Just not the one I'm building right now.