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Re: 2 motor drive VS 4 motor drive

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
I think you meant to say "the less per-motor/controller current draw you will potentially use" because with 4 cims (4x40A breakers) it is possible to draw twice as much total current as 2 cims (2x40A breakers).
That's right. Last year's rules prohibited splitting the output of a speed controller to 2 separate motors. What we did was split the PWM signal to 2 jaguars, each hooked up to their own 40-amp breaker, for a total of 4 jaguars and 4 CIM's. It worked just fine.
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