Banebots RS-775 Case Short
 

We have a Banebots 775 motor with its power leads shorted to the case. You can imagine why this would be an issue. We are not sure whether this is the one from the kit or the additional one we ordered.

I've seen one other team who posted about a problem with this... (http://blog.iamjvn.com/2011/02/jvn-b...75-motors.html)

Is anyone else having this issue? If you have NOT run your 775's yet, could you check them and see if they have this problem? It would be nice to know if they are DOA or if they were damaged while running in the robot.

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John mentioned it in his blog post, but we saw this on some brand new out-of-the box motors, too. It wasn't limited to just the ones we had already run.

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1114 has seen the same thing with some of our unused and used 775s.

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On a semi-related note,

We've also run into an issue where the "red dot" that presumably indicates where the positive terminal of the motor is is not consistent between the RS-775s.

We have a single gearbox that mates to two RS-775s, and had them both wired according to the red dot, and when we powered them up, they ran in opposite directions...

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25% of the unused, still-in-the-box 775 motors we tested were case shorted.

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Zero of our 15ish were defective, but not have been installed and ran on a robot.

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Although we aren't using any on our bot I'm gonna check ours just for kicks.


Side note: it really is good practice to check all motors for such issues before you use them, prevents nasty little surprises sometimes. I never apply power to a new motor (in FIRST or otherwise) without testing it for ground faults and other problems.

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Hmmmm.... Just our luck I went and checked our 3, 2 of which were conductive. What exactly makes them "bad"? I have not heard why exactly this a problem.

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Got in 3 today crammed in a flat-rate box without much padding. None have case shorting issues.

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Imagine two of your motors have a short to the case, and they're mounted to metal parts of your robot that connect...interesting things might happen.

I think it's also against the rules to have any power applied to the metal parts of the robot.

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Arrgh... 3 of our 10 were shorted to case. Thanks for saving us some trouble. Has anyone tried to go through the Banebots RMA process yet?

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Could someone please post the steps to check the 775s for a short?

Is there a fix? Or do the motors need to be returned.

Thanks

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3/7 of ours were shorted

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Use a multimeter to check the resistance between one of your motor leads and the motor casing. If it is conductive, you've got a problem.

We pulled one apart and tried to fix it, but no luck.

We haven't done the RMA process and probably won't bother (the motors have all been modified for use). The ordering (waiting) process was painful enough.

We had one of these motors (via AM Planetary) driving the same gear as a CIM. One of my freshman was wondering why the "gear was sparking." I told him it was normal to see sparks coming out the back of an open motor like the 775. He corrected me -- "not out the back, on the front... on the gear." Ugh -- that was when we first noticed the issue.

-John

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You gotta love those young eyes!