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Re: Drive Train Calcs - Not trusting my results

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
In all of the data logs I took on our 2012 practice robot, a straight-line accel always dropped the battery to 8v on launch. The time under voltage was highly dependent on the gearing and battery state of charge, but the low-voltage peak was always around 8v or lower.

At T0 where v=0, current in a 4-CIM drivetrain would be around 500a or so.
It would be if there were 12 volts at the motors. But not with 8 volts.