Help powering 12 feedback 360s

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• Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 22,569

  2019-07-31 - 06:02:18

  I'm not sure why you need five Props. I think one would be adequate.
  
  -Phil
• AwesomeCronk Posts: 925

  2019-07-31 - 11:43:03

  You know, I planned on five for 4 DOF legs. Than when I dialed it down to 3 DOF I guess I forgot that one prop could take that.
• Beau Schwabe Posts: 6,420

  2019-07-31 - 19:02:35

  You shouldn't need 12 Amps either. They don't ALL need to be on at the same time and even if they were they are only actually driving the motor 1/10th of the time in a worst case scenario. I would stagger them over the 20ms signal period so only a few were on at any given time.
• tomcrawford Posts: 1,079

  2019-07-31 - 19:23:17

  What language do you plan to use?
• AwesomeCronk Posts: 925

  2019-07-31 - 22:01:56

  @Beau Schwabe That makes sense, I guess I might only need 4 or 5A.
  
  @tomcrawford I plan to use good old Spin.
  
  I think I will send pulses to one leg every 5ms and just cycle the updates.
• AwesomeCronk Posts: 925

  2019-07-31 - 22:34:23

  I just realized how much 12 Feedback 360 servos is going to cost. Oof.
• Keith Young Posts: 569

  2019-08-01 - 15:24:30

  lol yup. We've been wanting to teach with Hexapods but those servos add up fast!
• erco Posts: 19,627

  2019-08-02 - 20:32:38

  AwesomeCronk wrote: »

  I just realized how much 12 Feedback 360 servos is going to cost. Oof.

  
  Quite the AHA moment...!