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[jeremy_cuss]

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Mark,

I admire your tracked vehicle, and I wish you luck with your design.

The few tracked vehicles that I have seen on Robot Wars have suffered from damaged tracks and loss of mobility very quickly. Superior pushing power is not worth much when you have lost one of your tracks. The drive on tracked vehicles is relatively heavy, and the engineering is complicated. My view is that you need that weight for armour, but you are clearly an expert, so.....

[Guest]

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I have been thinking I might just build two different robots one on tracks one on wheels and see which works better. Then I also have something to battle against before going against an oponent.
I will just have to see which is better to design and work with , Trail and error I guess is the way to go. Your all so lucky iover there to have a place to gather and test your robots against others. I will have to find others here in this area that have them also, but it looks like most of the compition will be on the west coast , a long way from here.
Ill keep you all informed.

[supernova]

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Hi
This is not related to Marks question, didnt want to start a new discussion. Im trying to measure the voltage to a motor that is being acelerated by a PRO 120A controller. The voltmeter is in parallel with the motor. Im getting really wierd readings. Anyone know what im doing wrong? I think it may be due to the pwm of the controller but am not sure.

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Unless you give full throttle, the voltmeter will show an average value of the PWM signal.

Have you tried using an oscilloscope?