Conveyor belt motor

[Marlfox]

What type of motors are teams using for their conveyor belts this year?

[Molten]

I guess it depends on what the conveyer leads to. If you want a fast conveyer a CIM is awesome. However, I suspect most will lead to a hopper where that much force would be a negative. I generally would go with a window motor for such a thing. Plenty of power, a decent speed. If you want, you can always speed it up with some gears or something.

[296Minion]

We are using two sims for our conveyor belts. Oh ya thats right!!!!!

[Nate Edwards]

What type of motors are teams using for their conveyor belts this year?

We are using a globe with gearbox.

[Taylor]

Cim, possibly jagged down.

[R.C.]

CIM.

[thefro526]

It all depends on the design.

We have a Conveyor Belt that also serves double duty as our Hopper and Scoring Device. Because of this we needed a lot of speed so we went with a Cim Through a Banebots Transmission.

If your Conveyor Belt is feeding a Hopped or another mechanism I'd use a Window Motor or FisherPrice with KOP Gearbox. Bot of them have decent speed and plenty of power.

[vivek16]

Fischer prices through banebots planetaries (20:1 with a 11:22 sprocket reduction).

-Vivek

[Stephen of REX]

We are using a CIM with a 12 to 1 Banebot transmission then geared up using sprockets. It gets those orbit balls up the conveyer in a hurry! Since we have an open top hopper, we're using a piece of bent lexan at the top of the conveyer to prevent balls from shooting out the top of the robot.

[p00rleno]

Double CIM Motors in the same gearbox!

[BENMAN]

We're using 2 "Fisher Price" motors. (they're just standard 550 sized brushed motors) We have them hooked into Andymark and then Banebots transmissions (I know, it's bad) but you can get good transmissions here (http://banebots.com/c/MP-36XXX-540).

[dani190]

cim except the method we are using it is currently considered "secret"

so you will half to wait till later to see pictures...

[Betty_Krocker]

we are using two globes which we have taken a stage out of the gearbox, with a CIM 3 to 1 gear reduction at the top... Tangential speed of our shooter is quite fast...

[jamie_1930]

we're currently using globe motors, and they've worked alright, but a cim would give you the best speed.

[Betty_Krocker]

if you take a stage out of the globe motor the motor bumps from ~80 rpm to ~480 rpm a huge increase, the only problem being that you have to mill the housing of the gearbox down...

[Dad1279]

if you take a stage out of the globe motor the motor bumps from ~80 rpm to ~480 rpm a huge increase, the only problem being that you have to mill the housing of the gearbox down...

It can be done w/o machining: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73237

[Brandon Holley]

1 CIM through toughbox for intake/hopper
1 FP through banebots for elevator

[hillale]

pretty sure we're going dual cims.

[Betty_Krocker]

It can be done w/o machining: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73237

touche......

[Greg Peshek]

We were using FPs for both the ball intake mech and the conveyor.. however we are having issues with the wobble of the FP gearbox, and it is kind of slow. So now we're keeping a FP on the collector and putting a CIM on the conveyor belt, which should actually make our conveyor work 2 x faster.

[rsegrest]

64:1 Banebot...and on the shooter the 4:1 Banebots...I'm afraid...27rps :eek:

[Black Claw]

This is the information i've been looking for on what type of motors i should use on our conveyor belt design. thnks :D

[Smoores]

we originally were using banebots, which supplied adequate power, but after a quick glance at the rulebook, figured out that 7 banebot motors were not legal, so we strapped on a Cim, and are a having some FUN!

[Dad1279]

We were using FPs for both the ball intake mech and the conveyor.. however we are having issues with the wobble of the FP gearbox, and it is kind of slow. So now we're keeping a FP on the collector and putting a CIM on the conveyor belt, which should actually make our conveyor work 2 x faster.

There have been some excellent posts on removing stages from a FP gearbox for more speed. I won't take credit for the idea, search around.

It is as simple as a 1/4" threaded coupler (which is reduced in length to the width of a gear, and happens to be the perfect fit inside the plastic gears), some threaded rod or bolts cut to size, and (2) 1/4" bronze bushings.

You can get about 1000rpm with 2 gears left in, and about 3300 with 1.