I need an electricians help!!! Making an Egg Rev 50% done

[nato]

Hey guys... I have been working on this for the past two days. I am sick of crappy shelled, heavy halos so I decided to make my own fast, light loader with a nice old school vl2000 shell. I began with the idea of taking ALL of the egg electronics and parts and fitting them into a revy. This is what I did with my first version.



Then it dawned on me while I took my shower this morning that since the egg motor is the same size as the revolutions, that I could swap out motors and keep the revys eyes along with battery holder. So far the only working model that I have been able to produce is using the egg motor by connecting it to the egg battery holder. This means that I was able to make it work without the LARGE egg board. Downside is that I dont have eyes now. So now what I need YOUR help on, is to figure out a way to make the revolution eyes work with either one of the two following combos...

1. The egg motor and egg battery holder

2. The egg motor and revolution battery holder (preffered option because the on/off switch is attatched.


I can use the egg one on top or the revvy one below

Replacing this huge board with just the revvy eyes

What I hope the electronics will look like... now all I need is for them to work together

all of the components

Please dont post here unless if you have some intelligent ideas on how to make this work. And right now I only care about the electronics... dont worry about the mechanical aspect of making this run like an egg... I already have it planned out.

Thanks,
Nate

[tippyjack]

I am confused, why don't you just use the revvy board with the revvy eyes? Or you could use the empire sound activated board so you don't have to worry about eyes.

[nato]

I am confused, why don't you just use the revvy board with the revvy eyes? Or you could use the empire sound activated board so you don't have to worry about eyes.

Thats what I have been trying to do but the attatchments for the egg motor odnt work for the revvy so I have all of the wires spliced but I cant figure out how to make them work together.

Nate

[tippyjack]

Ok your problem is attacking the egg motor to the revvy board, you just buy a new servo from your local hobby/RC store that fits the revvy board or use the revvy motor with the egg paddle.

[ScatterPlot]

tippyjack, there's a problem with that- you gotta modify the servo. Standard servos just twist in a predefined arc, so it's able to do things like position steering wheels. You need to make it where it spins completely around. Probly can find some tutorials online with Google, but you can't just put it in there strait.

[tippyjack]

Servos are told only to go that far by the reciever in the car, trust me caause I have both 3 rc vehicles and I also have a servo from my local rc shop in my egg tha spins full cycles faster that the stock servo. See the board is the exact same thing as the reciever(mind in a rc vehicle), yet they are programmed differently. The only problem is that you need to find a servo that is high speed, low torqe, and with plastic gears cause the metal ones are an over hall for pb loaders.

[neilius1234]

btw, it will only be force feed for half the hopper, unless you play pointing your gun up at a 45* angle haha

great idea though, youll have to make a ramp type thing to keep all the balls ready to drop into the raceway


EDIT: sorry for not posting about the electronics, i totally missed that part of the post, im dumb

[ScatterPlot]

Tippy- I have been told my numerous places that there are internal stops involved in the servo, as well as the limitations on the potentinometer. Now I don't really have firsthand experience with these, but are you sure that the servos can turn all the way around?

[Arstron]

How do you have this setup wired up? If you use the revolution board and eyes with the egg motor, all you have to do is wire the egg motor into the revolution harness. Red is hot, white is ground. Just splice those to wires in the harness and hook the wires from the motor up to them and everything should work the same as having a revolution motor in there.

btw, im glad you posted this, ive been wondering if a revolution motor would fit in a egg hopper.

[tippyjack]

Tippy- I have been told my numerous places that there are internal stops involved in the servo, as well as the limitations on the potentinometer. Now I don't really have firsthand experience with these, but are you sure that the servos can turn all the way around?

Yes I am sure, the stock motor is a servo and so is the servo that was in my egg. I am possitive about the servos.

[ScatterPlot]

http://www.seattlerobotics.org/guide/servos.html

A normal servo is used to control an angular motion of between 0 and 180 degrees. A normal servo is mechanically not capable of turning any farther due to a mechanical stop built on to the main output gear.

[ColdFuzion]

Do the battery mod to the Egg battery cord, that'll make things A LOT easier.

-Cold

**EDIT** My Empire Revo and my teammates Eggy have the same motor hookups.. As an easy way out, slap a Rev, TurboRev, or Empire Rev board in + Eggo Raceway and paddles... Should work fine.

[tippyjack]

Scatter plot, the servo I had in my egg turned 360 degrees or 2∏ radians, But cold fusion has a point that you might want to try a reloader board or what ever. You could hot wire the servo to the board.