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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Depends on whether you like the legs of your furniture "un-modified" or not..
PCM Failsafes can take up to 1 second to kick in (as opposed to the IBC's hundredths of a second), and Inspector General can cover a
lot
of living room floor at full speed with the saw spinning in one second
Fortunately the free-standing japanese divider wall thingies that Mel had bought just a few weeks before intercepted IG nicely, and made a pretty shower of polished black-wood fragments fly everywhere !!
Which I then spent the next hour or so carefully repairing with hot glue, a file and paint, plus a lot of sucking up to avoid getting growled at for demolishing the house..
I think I got off lightly.. If Mel hadnt sawed through the cushion on her spare office chair (while making parts for Scoopy with the Jigsaw) just a few days before, she might have been less understanding..
Robots *like* being powered up in houses.. there are lots of nice soft chewy toys around for them, which makes a change from their usual diet of hard crunchy metal. Of course the house, contents and owners thereof might have a different opinion..
As for whether the Gyro will over-ride the failsafe or not, I believe it depends on the model.. some of the cheaper/simpler ones will keep putting out their last valid signal if the input goes away, which means it will definitely over-ride the failsafe. Others detect of Loss-of-Signal (LOS) and switch off their output as well.
The ones I bought from RMP dont stop the failsafe, but I cant find one right now, so all I can tell you is they're a yellow cube about 3cm on a side, with a small hole for an adjusting screw. I'll try to find the model # for you tomorrow if you still need it. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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