Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03612
To: Wouter Brok w.j.m.brok@stud.tue.nl
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 07:04:57 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Fast Bicore, not wasting energy.
For some reason or other, it works even if the cycle is 50%. I've
experimented alot with them. I dunno why, though.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
> The problem is that there is an alternating current flowing through the
> motor, which, most of the time, doesn't result in motion (except when the
> dut-cycle differs from 50%), but is just dissipated, which I find a
> terrible waste (I don't need the warmth resulting since I have other
> machines which make my room warm for me). What can be done against this?
> For example, does it help to put a capacitor across the motor-inputs, or
> capacitors between the outputs of the circuit and the inputs of the motor
> ... or are there ways to store the energy and use it again?
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