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Re: 6 CIM Drivetrains... What's Your Experience?

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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0 View Post
We have used six CIMs in our drivetrain. However, our drivetrain never used more than four of them at full power at once which probably helped avoid any current/voltage problems. No special software was needed.

What do you mean by this?

Are you delaying the start up of one of one, or more, of the motors on each side to spread out the current peaks?