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powering Banebots RS395

This is more out of curiosity than practicality.

We have an RS395 motor from Banebots this year. It's tiny. It draws 0.5A no-load, and 15A stalled. At peak power it's about 1/10 of a CIM.

So the question is, how do you power it?
If you use a Spike Relay, you can us a 5A fuse to keep the motor from burning out.

What if you use a Victor or a Jaguar? Then your protection is none whatsoever.

It seems that we don't have a variable-speed controller SMALL enough for this motor. I suppose if we could put ATC fuses in the PD board (and I mean FUSES, not auto-resetting breakers), then we could adequately protect it.


What would it be good for in the first place?
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