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Originally Posted by thefro526
One year it'd be nice if FIRST gave us a list of Motors we could use with the only restriction on quantity being a total maximum power output. (Sum of all motor power can't exceed 2000W or something.) That'd be interesting.
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Or they could say "Each motor must have exactly 1 breaker, have fun".
*You can't have gigantic motors because the max. current per motor is limited by the 40a breakers
*You can't have too many large motors because you only have 8 40a breakers
*You can't have a ridiculous number of motors with 30a or 20a breakers, because you only have so many 30a slots as well, and a few things also use those breakers (like the cRio modules).
Favorite motors:
CIM motors are awesome for high-power things like drivetrains.
FP or 550 motors are awesome for high power but more predictably-loaded things (such as arms) or high power, light weight things (like roller claws or other high-up mechanisms)
An AMP or CIM-U-LATOR makes the FP or 550 think it's a CIM.
I would be very happy to just have those two motors. Most things would use a CIM interface, and the limited number of CIMs could be distributed, and the rest could get FP or 550's through CIM-U-LATORs. Anything without a CIM interface would accept a FP or 550 directly.