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- From: meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: sliprings
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.160344.9138@dbsun.uucp>
- Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
- References: <BtK62M.Mst@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:03:44 GMT
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- In article <BtK62M.Mst@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> fasano@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
- >... I believe
- >the older version of Radio Shacks Armitron used sliprings, but I haven't
- >been able to find one.
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- Hmmm. I've got one of the ones that just sits there (not wheeled) and
- it appears to be purely mechanical as far as movement of the gripper etc.
- I think the motor is fixed in the base and power is transmited via gears
- and clutches and shafts. Haven't opened it up though...
-
- Don
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