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Last year--drill and F/P together
Last year we connected the drill and Fisher-Price motors end to end, ran the output of both through the drill gearbox, and drove our track drive from the output of the gearbox. While the no load rpm of the drill motor is higher than that of the F/P's, the difference is fairly small. We had them running at the same speed and it worked pretty well.
This year, I suspect that most of the four motor drive trains will use the drill motors and the new Chiphuas(sp).
There is a big rpm difference between the drill motors and the Chiphua's, ~20,000 vs ~5500 so the motors need to be geared separately to match rpm at the load point.
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Team 45, TechnoKats, 1996-2002
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Team 233, "The Pink Team," 2004-present
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