RobH
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LOL. I'm winging it. shhhh. don't tell.
Oh yeah, Peristaltic pumps do have a very low output. This one, however, is using a huge 3/16 piece of tubing. (I've had to double up on the bearings for clearance.) The large diameter of tubing makes it pump more at lower RPMs.
I'm building this with my buggy in mind. My .21 can blow through 125cc of fuel in about 5-10 minutes. That means it has to pump 12-25 cc of fluid every minute. A cc is roughly two large drops. That means I need the pump to produce about a drop a second.
The larger tubing pumps about twice that fast. Right now, I'm using 4 AA batteries (getting kind of dead). I might have to knock it down to 2 AA batteries when all is said and done. At this point, I'm using voltage to regulate the final, resulting flow rate.
Anyway, more work tomorrow morning...
