Thread: Mini Cim Drive Motors?
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Unread 07-06-2013, 19:49
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Re: Mini Cim Drive Motors?
Ok so the Mini CIM was designed specifically do mate 1:1 with the CIM motor. The design goals were:

(1) Same exact mounting as CIM motor

(2) Have current draw of approximately 40 amps at max power.

(3) Optimized (while keeping constraint #2) to mate 1:1 with the CIM motor to maximize the Mini CIM contribution at maximum power. We are about 10% off from this goal.

We utilized a Magtrol automated Dynamometer setup to test various conditions to make sure the contribution of the mini CIM when combined with a CIM motor was as expected.

My team ran mini CIMs along side CIM motors in our drive gearbox (4 CIMs and 2 Mini CIMs) and they performed as expected.

I hope this sheds some light on the mini CIM performance.

Paul
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