Thread: 9 motors too much?
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Unread 08-02-2011, 09:34
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Re: 9 motors too much?
While I don't doubt that it is possible for an FRC bot to trip the 120A breaker, in 8 years of FRC (multiple events per season) I have never once seen my team, or any team at an event we were at trip the main breaker. I'm sure you'll be fine so long as you're geared sensibly. Even if you ARENT geared sensibly, you're much more likely to just kill batteries in no time flat than you are to trip the main breaker. As Don Rotolo and Al Skierkiewicz have been saying, the breaker will happily conduct 600A+ for a few seconds, and the battery will only provide that much current for a few seconds before become fully depleted. I've seen many robots, my own included, that had major issues keeping batteries charged because of incorrect gearing.