Thread: Shooter burning motors...but why?
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Re: Shooter burning motors...but why?
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It's easy to figure out why, if you gather some data:
What is the free speed (i.e. steady-state speed with no balls being launched) of your shooter wheel? If you don't know how, or don't have the equipment to measure the speed of a spinning wheel, then what is the current being drawn by the motor?

At that free speed, what %PWM are you commanding?
You've already given the 7:1 geardown ratio, and that's a good start. Just make sure that's the right number and includes everything all the way from the motor rpm to the wheel rpm.

Also make sure the AIR VENTS on the 550 ARE NOT BLOCKED.