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Re: 3 robots designs I hope to see this season

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Originally Posted by farmersvilleRob View Post
3000 watts, but that's combined. You can't mismatch motors and think there will not be binding (for arm robots) or miss matched speeds and spin up times (pitching machine). Also that battery would drain so fast! lol
You can use a different power motors in the same mechanism easily without any problems, as long as you match the free speed to within a few percent of each other. For example, if Motor A is 10,000 rpm and motor B is 5,000 rpm and you want to use them in the same gearbox, simply gear down Motor A 2:1 before you interface it with Motor B.
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