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Unread 09-12-2013, 09:50
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Re: 6 CIM Drivetrains... What's Your Experience?

We didn't use a 6 CIM drive, but did use a 6 motor drive(4 CIM 2 550). Regardless, we ran into a couple problems. We were geared really high(19fps at 100% efficiency) with high traction wheels(2" wide vex traction). We never blew the main breaker in a pushing match, but going from full speed forward to full speed backwards bl;ew it a couple times in practice and competition. We ended up inserting a 1/8 second ramp up on big velocity changes like this and never encountered the problem again.
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