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Posted by on April 21, 2006, 3:55 pm
Looks like a neat combination circuit board. But at $395 its a bit
pricey for my applications. So tell us about the features besides dual
Hbridge that make it particularly special to you .
Padu wrote:
> Having gained a little bit of experience with electronics, I must say that
> making things work may be frustrating sometimes. Not this time.
> I just got my Roboteq AX3500 (the open board version). It has 2 60A channels
> for DC motors, 8 pwm outputs, several types of inputs (analog, rs232, RC RF
> receiver) and accepts either optical encoders or pots for closed loop
> control.
> I haven't fully tested it yet, but in less than 15 minutes, I've connected
> power to the controller (using a car battery), connected my magmotor DC
> motor to it, and the serial cable to my computer; installed their
> application and using a USB joystick there I was turning my motor back and
> forth just like a kid playing with a new toy.
> The PC app that comes with it is very complete, nice and easy to use. The
> controller parameters are very complete, for example, in open loop mode (I
> think the same goes for closed loop), you can setup if you want regular
> input, exponential or log input. When you are playing with the joystick, you
> can monitor voltage, encoder, amps, everything on nice real time charts. The
> documentation is very complete and full of illustrations.
> So far I'm very happy with my purchase, I'll let you guys know when I
> implement it into Yaboo (the name of my second robot).
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Padu
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> making things work may be frustrating sometimes. Not this time.
> I just got my Roboteq AX3500 (the open board version). It has 2 60A channels
> for DC motors, 8 pwm outputs, several types of inputs (analog, rs232, RC RF
> receiver) and accepts either optical encoders or pots for closed loop
> control.
> I haven't fully tested it yet, but in less than 15 minutes, I've connected
> power to the controller (using a car battery), connected my magmotor DC
> motor to it, and the serial cable to my computer; installed their
> application and using a USB joystick there I was turning my motor back and
> forth just like a kid playing with a new toy.
> The PC app that comes with it is very complete, nice and easy to use. The
> controller parameters are very complete, for example, in open loop mode (I
> think the same goes for closed loop), you can setup if you want regular
> input, exponential or log input. When you are playing with the joystick, you
> can monitor voltage, encoder, amps, everything on nice real time charts. The
> documentation is very complete and full of illustrations.
> So far I'm very happy with my purchase, I'll let you guys know when I
> implement it into Yaboo (the name of my second robot).
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Padu