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Re: Mini Cim Drive Motors?

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris View Post
Thats the intent that I remember from Paul (I might be totally wrong), but to be honest I haven't worked on motor dynamics in a couple years. Obviously at free speed and stall the mini Cim wouldn't match the CIM, but the dynamics of how the load is shared in a gearbox with motors of non-matching free speeds is escaping me right now. I'll shoot Paul an Email and see if he can correct me.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the design intent. Joe Johnson explained why it doesn't matter if motor speeds match in this post. For packaging reasons, we geared 2 CIMs 1:1 with 2 mini-CIMs in our climbing mechanism this year and it seemed to work fine.
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