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Re: I am very nervous

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Originally Posted by lineskier View Post
haha. I have no idea. also it seemed only to be a problem at low speeds, but it took me all comp to figure out why the speed seemed random. Again part of it was our design... a 2 cim drive direct through toughbox (1 cim per box). In the end this setup just sucks, sucks for programming, sucks for driving. We also found the setup would essentially overheat after a minute of use on the carpet, and would just quit. Hopefully other people can learn from our mistakes.
Sounds like the motors may have been near stall, and the new batteries may be a bit healthier and able to dump more current in to the motors at a given power level. Maybe we should do some battery profiling.

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