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Re: Radio and CIM motors

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Originally Posted by jmiller18 View Post
Ok then just go to your local osh or hardware store and pick up some dryer tubing, which is as close to steel foil you can get and rap it around ur cims
Which will be entirely saturated by the large magnetic field of the CIM because it's so thin. Notice how thick the flux rings are on the BaneBots motors.

All of that is beside the point, however, because a CIM is still a big hunk of metal that is going to block radio from the field. Save yourself a headache and just put the radio somewhere away from metal and motors where it'll get good reception.
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