Originally Posted by pilleya (Post 1530628)

Full size CIM's are the only motor that has a 'limit' this season.

This is not related to the limit, but Andymark does not actually have "Bane-bots" motors, are you talking about the 550 style 9015 or the Andymark PG 775 motor.

It is important to note that the Andymark Planetary Gearbox with 775 motor is not a banebots RS775-18 and is a Andymark RS775-125 which is very weak in comparison to the Banebots or WCP 775 motors. It has less than 20% of the output power of the RS775-18.

Originally Posted by nighterfighter (Post 1530635)

The WAGO slots on the PDP are the "ports" that you plug your motor-controller wires into.

You can not (FRC-legally) modify the PDP to have more WAGO slots. The MORE board allows you to have more PWM outputs, but won't actually give you more WAGO slots.

Edit:

As to your question about the "Y" connector:

Yes you could do that. Make sure that each CIM motor is connected to it's own motor controller, and each of those motor controllers are connected to different WAGO slots.

Keep in mind, whatever PWM signal you send into the "Y" cable will be sent to both. You can't address each motor controller individually that way. So make sure that the motors spin the correct directions and aren't fighting each other once inside the gearbox.

Originally Posted by paul.dornfeld (Post 1530638)

Oh! Thank you for the clarification. That is important.

Originally Posted by pilleya (Post 1530643)

There is a helpful comparison between most legal motors available at

http://motors.vex.com/

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz (Post 1530830)

This would be an appropriate time to remind everyone that the battery can only supply so much energy. You can load up a lot of motors but running many of them at the same time will lead to brownouts. There is no free lunch fellow knights.