Chief Delphi - Out of 40amp slots

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi (Post 1130005)

Can you post up if you have any issues with the shooter FP motors on 20 amps? I'm just curious.

I don't know for sure....you see, we have software controlling it, and the software is not bulletproof. Thinking back, we might have had the breaker snap off a couple times when the software was not working properly (ie motor running backwards, ball was forced into shooter wheel, strange things happened but no motor smoke)

We also designed our robot to use the FP motors in the sweet spot, somewhere around 80% of no-load speed. And we run 18 guage wire to them because it's easier to deal with, and use 20 amp breakers, and we really don't want to be able to give them any more current than that, since they have a way of making smoke when you do.