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[Guest]

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Does anybody have any information regarding technobots windscreen wiper motors i.e their current draw etc.

[team_ireland]

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Very little mark. They can easily last for a full battle on 2.2amp/h batteries and that was at 24v.

[typhoon_driver]

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Ive run two wiper motors off of 2x 2.1Ah Yuasa SLA batteries in series to give 24V for ten minutes before they started to slow down. They only got slightly warm.

[psychostorm]

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Ok, I have a 24 Volt gold motor and an 8mm MOD1 gear. My only problem is..

*Places gear on spindle and flicks the gear.The gear rotates around the Axle.*

In the event of pushiong power, that aint gonna help. Any suggestions on a semi permanent fixture?

[geoff]

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Are we talking about a flat(type PG) or with a boss(type G) gear? Because a type G is far easier to work with than a type PG. Also it would be handy to know the no. of teeth or the PCD.

[psychostorm]

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All I knew off that Geoff, was the number of teeth. 18 of em if youre interested.

http://www.technobots.co.uk/en-gb/pg_26.htmlAll

[blazerbotics]

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i used grub screws on alphas golds. I used 2 M6s but M4s shoud be fine. Other option is to drill a hole through gear and shaft and put a pin through them both.

[geoff]

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Like the quote!

As Alan says the best way is to drill it & pin it!

[Guest]

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Ok i got some technobots ww motors today and i was just wondering if any one had any opinions on how to use the shafts on the motors as they are threaded.

[Guest]

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anyone?

[typhoon_driver]

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well ive got the same problem mark

Thing is is that the cogs im using from technobots just happen to have a hole of 5mm through the centre and the shaft, once filed down, on my motors looks as if it is roughly 5mm.

You could always attempt to smooth the thread to a smooth finish by putting an apoxy resin on it and then carefully smoothing it out. This should be strong enough as we used it in the hubs of the wheels for the lightweight robots, thunder and lightning.

[Guest]

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Well i want to mount the wheels straight onto the right angle gear box shaft of the windscreen wiper motor. But the shaft is threaded and stubby. I was thinking maybe get a threaded tube then put a pin through that and the shaft or weld it. Im not too sure really. Ill have a mess about and see what i can come up with. Im sure somebody has succesfully done this before.

[typhoon_driver]

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you could try and replace the shaft of the gearbox. I thought you were talking about the shft of the motor. Replacing the gearbox shaft is alot easier than trying to replace the motor shaft. This is probably easier than attempting to weld or pin a stubby shaft.

[maddox]

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I replaced the motorshaft of the wipermotor I used on Project I and IIs steering, as the plastic gear came lose time and time again.
Oh well, I can do things like that fairly easy now.

[Guest]

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So how would i go about replacing the shaft?