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Message #11285
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dennison Bertram" dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:35:12 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: 4+ motor walkers
Nope actually if you turn one 240 into one bicore remeber you can drive the
motors directly from the 240. No motor drivers needed. So actually this is
the optimal chip count situation. In addition, when you start working with
so many bicores and resistors, it helps to have things cleanly seperated and
deliniated. It helps make sense of things. Also there is more feedback when
the bicore drive the motors directly.
dennison
Hello,
For every suspended bicore walker I see it seems as though people choose
to do the same old single bicore per 240 chip. What is the advantage of this
over having 4 suspended bicores on one chip and just having a motor driver.
Seems to me that you could cut the chip count in half for a 2 motor walker.
Steve
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