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- From: fculpepp@norfolk.vak12ed.edu (Fred W. Culpepper)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: sliprings
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.151541.20613@norfolk.vak12ed.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:15:41 GMT
- References: <BtK62M.Mst@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Norfolk)
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- fasano@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
- > not, why? Are they unreliable, expensive, or both.
- > I am designing a toy robot which lends itself to the use of
- > sliprings. I need at leased six connections. The cheapest comercial ones
- > I could find were 50 US $ this was too expensive for a toy. I believe
- > the older version of Radio Shacks Armitron used sliprings, but I haven't
- > been able to find one.
- > does any one Know of a good design for homemade sliprings?
- > I prefer the pancake style.
- >
- > Matt Fasano
- You can make a "slip ring" assenbly using a printed circuit
- board with a concentric ring pattern and old relay contact
- springs for wipers. I have used this scheme for up to 12 rings
- on a pc board of 8" diameter.
-
- Fred W. Culpepper
- OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY (Retired)
- fculpepp@norfolk.vak12ed.edu
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