Thread: Keeping drive motors cool
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Re: Keeping drive motors cool
What Roger said,

We use two fans that we put on the robot. One normally goes on the drive and the other one to other systems that get hot.

Our battery will last us about 3-7 minutes before it dips below 12V. So a part of our routine is to:

-Put fans on the robot
-Fill up air tanks
-New Battery
-Fix anything broken (hopefully nothing!)

The 971 method of putting permanent fans is also a great solution, we've been wanting to do it for years but we for some reason don't... Probably cause we are lazy.

-RC
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