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I know in 2012 the Poofs had a drivetrain that had two CIM's per side and a 775 (I think it was a 775) per side as well (with 2-speeds, no less), per this source, and also from me seeing it at Champs. This seems to me like it could be the best of both worlds, and a CIM/775/775Pro hybrid opens up a ton of possibilities.

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Quite a few teams have utilised the BB775-18 in conjunction with CIM's in previous seasons.

775's especially the 775pro because of the bearings, are more efficient then CIM's, so this is another advantage. I think that in a shifting gearbox, 775pro’s are highly effective alongside CIM’s or with sufficient cooling could be highly effective alone. 3360’s drivetrain utilises 8 775pro’s that is a lot of power. While the motors may not like being stalled, it is very unlikely they will be stalled in a pushing match (this is more power than 8 CIM’s).

Cooling CIM’s with a fan etc. during a match isn’t very effective, because most of the heat is contained in the rotor, in-fact the outer case of the motor continues to heat up after the match ends, because of the heat conducting from the rotor. But with 775pro’s because of the low thermal mass and the fact that they aren’t sealed means that in-match cooling can be used.

The 775pro is designed so air is drawn in through the front holes, and is then expelled out the back after it has passed around the rotor. The VP mount has special holes for this, but the holes in the the VP motor input stage, could be enlarged to increase airflow.

In the 2014 KOP there was a thing called an “ICE cube” supplied by EBMpapst which allows fan-forced cooling keeping the motor cool, even when the fan is not rotating. It looks ideal for a task like this.

http://first.ebmpapst.us/docs/Instruction_RevC.pdf

There was some discussion about it on this thread http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=775+cooler

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We had problems at Toronto, probably like 1296, because our gear ratio was too fast. The power peaks we had made us brownout. we replaced a 5:1 for a 9:1 in the planetaries at Montreal, and we had twice the torque, and the speed is still decent, about 9ft-sec, now with no brownout problems.

Like you said, with all the power, if we get in a pushing match, the wheels slip instead of stalling the motors. They get warm, maybe hot in elims, but they will not burn

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We were running around 16ft-second with our 775pro drive. Our problem in Palmetto was stalling the 775pros and not having any software current limiting (which was heavily tested and implemented for Dallas). That happened 3 straight matches (new motors every match) and led to our early exit from the elims. Although we thought the issue had been solved for Dallas and we cooked the motors again in the elims. Since we have plenty of weight we decided to go to a 1 CIM and 1 miniCIM per side drive that will be implemented at champs.

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my point, exactly. 4 775's at 16ft second has 4 times less torque than our setup, at 8 775's. Having more torque makes sure you don't stall the motors and burn them. We also learned it the hard way :rolleyes:

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It is probably reasonably quick to change gearboxes/motors over if your using VP's. However because 775pro's are such a precious resource this season, with the supply issues it can't exactly be practical to be going through them at that rate:)

Have you had any issues with the carrier plates of the gearbox or any other issues with them?
The load rating data sheet, says that the big reduction(7,9,10:1) carrier plates says that they can withstand up to 100 N-m, so your not to close to that, but there are a lot of different stresses in a drivetrain. I suppose part of the reasoning for having the sprocket reduction after the planetary reduction stage was to reduce the torque on the gearbox?

Also how often do you grease the gearboxes?

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How many 775 pros did you buy?!

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we have a special technique for the carrier plates... we punch the gear pins so the expand. they last longer that way. the sprocket reduction after the gearbox does reduce the torque, but the main idea behind it was that it was easier to install that way.

We greased the gearboxes once when we built it, and one more time when we changed the ratios at Montreal. We don't plan on greasing them again

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We got the motor swap down to about 7 minutes per side. On the VPs we weld the pins and bore out the gears putting needle bearings in to spin on the pins and fortunately we did not have any problems. Swapping the VP would have been a much longer task.