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Article #262Re: sliprings
From: Fred W. Culpepper
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:15
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:15
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!vdoe386!norfolk!fculpepp 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) Lines: 20