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Re: regulated power for potentiometer

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Originally Posted by cgmv123 View Post
If you run most of/all your motors at once, you could be looking at significantly more than 5 volts of loss.
We never run all of our motors at once. The AM-0912 motors power the arm which has very high torque and holds it's own weight un-powered. The collector wheels spin only when we pick up a ball, so it's not the often. The shooter CIMs spin only when we are shooting a ball. The 4 Drive motors are the ones that spin most often.
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