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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: seeking help in constructing a large servo
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Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 03:01:23 GMT
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atpapas@uncc.edu (Athanasios T Papas) writes:
>Greetings.  I was hoping i might get some help with a
>project.  I'm disabled and I'm buying a van that I can
>drive from my chair.  Anyway, I can't afford 10k for
>a steering system so i can drive it with a joystick.
>So, what I want to do is construct a large servo and
>use gearing to attack it to the steering column.  

     I wouldn't homebrew a drive-by-wire system.  You need solid
engineering and redundancy for that.  I suspect they cost $10K
for that reason, although probably half the cost is liability
insurance.

					John Nagle
