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New motors/servos for the spool and rudder #60

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aaron4522 opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 1 comment
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New motors/servos for the spool and rudder #60

aaron4522 opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 1 comment
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aaron4522 commented Sep 20, 2024

Likely going to switch the rudder odrive for a servo and keep an odrive for the sail (if mech team decides to keep the spool design).

According to this equation equation we'd need ~20-30 kg/cm of torque for our rudder.

Currently we use a Turnigy Aerodrive SK3 which has 18 kg/cm of torque according to a spreadsheet that tom did (dunno how accurate)

TODO:

  • Find a new rudder servo we can buy
    • 20+ kg/cm
    • 180+ deg range
    • <0.5s for full 180
    • Ideally waterproof
    • Consult mech team on what they want to fit the shaft
  • Find a new sail servo/motor we can buy
    • Consult mech team to see if they plan to do a spool, pully or some other mechanism for pulling in the sail
    • Figure out torque requirements, (our current 1.8 Nm motor works great with our spool and sail)
    • Choose between either a DC motor + encoder or a winch servo
      • With our current spool it takes ~4 motor rotations to fully bring in the sail. Sail winches can do ~3.5, but making a bigger spool means less rotations are necessary.
      • If choosing a DC motor + encoder, figure out whether we really need an odrive encoder or if we can get away with the cheap encoders embedded into the motor itself
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