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Are these actuators anygood ?

Discussion in 'Motor actuators and drivers' started by SilentChill, Jul 27, 2014.

  1. SilentChill

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    I have no idea about these things but the price seems pretty good but i think the movement is way too slow ?

    http://www.gimsonrobotics.co.uk/GLA750_12V-linear-actuator.html
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    nope, need 10-20 times the speed of these.
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    Could I not mod them to make them faster maybe put a bigger faster more powerful motor on or something, I dunno just thinking out loud.
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    oh man after my own heart... lets buy something less expensive an lets see how we can get it up to speed, you should see what i do with ebay projectors lol
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    like this?
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    Haha yes something like that. Hmmm got me thinking now.

    Surely someone would of done that on here by now ? If not gonna see if I can get hold of some cheapish ones see what i can do with them.

    And what do you do with projectors @bruiser ?
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    might go the same route, just awaiting all the gear to come in for my first build , see how wiper motors go then go from there,
    as for the projectors. a number of things, pickup up a few blown bulb ones and done led mods with 15000 lumen leds, built my own using a ipad3 lcd, done lcd/controller/led swaps out, the Chinese lcd projectors off ebay are based on a 5inch lcd and fresnel lenses swaps out nicely with a bit of chop an drop with a rotary tool
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    Have you got those example projector projects somewhere online bruiser? Sounds interesting.
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    http://z6.invisionfree.com/diyprojectorphils/index.php? you'll have to join, worth a look, hertzblaster does some good work, the scene is really waiting on the controller from the "dk1 riftup" upgrade , for the oculus rift dk1, the lg tftp 5.6 lcd, then watch thoses diy's strink.
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    Thanks bruiser.
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    putting faster motors has been tried on slower actuators, most of the time, the actuators get chewed out because of the faster speed.
    I reckon build yourself a pair of these

    http://bffsimulation.com/linear-act.php
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    Thanks I thought someone must of tried it already. I'll have a look at your link
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    bsft didnt you buy these plans before? , how did the build go ?
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