@robotbuilder re: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Current (amps) = Force (volts) x Resistance (ohms) I...

TASan-- Could you please give some reference where I can find data for your 24V led strips as power supply and distribution could become an issue he...

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Thanks for your thoughts to DaveE and all others who have kicked in on this. I think I've found out what I was looking for---Your (and other's) thoug...

@davee Thanks for your thoughts on this. Actually this relates to an on-going project with my daughter who is a physicist working in the crystalog...

After looking over the data sheets for these things it almost looks like they were designed to be impossible to connect them in series so I'll have to...

Re "perpetual motion" This idea has been kicking around for so many years that it is now correctly dismissed as "impossible" without much reference ...

@patrickwd -- Into now?? I have a physicist daughter who is doing work in mineralogy and I've ended up making some lab equipment for her using Arduin...

Interesting past history--I'm also a retired electrical engineer with background similar to yours. Work was steel mills, blast furnaces, mine hoists,...

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@flat_battery I worked at a GE Canada plant for some years and found working conditions quite good. I can't help getting a chuckle from the Droneb...

If the motors are really dc motors with brushes and commutator they will be pretty tolerant of a minor overvoltage in this range. (I remember GE mill...

@whitneydesignlabs Obviously something has been done re sewing machines which I don't know about so could you please bring me up to date. Just wha...

Your Singer sewing machine being driven by a servomotor sort of intrigues me. The normal way to drive a sewing machine is just with an ac motor, serie...