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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
More like not enough material. Those thin pieces of sheet wouldn't hold up on their own even without the motors. At a minimum, especially for anything with a CIM attached to it, use 1/4" aluminum plate, or else your gearbox is going to snap before the first miliamp hits your motors.
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I'm little confused, are you talking about their being a problem because the sheet metal isn't flanged at all? Our drive motor plates are .09" 5052 and we didn't have a problem with them at all, though they have more flanges along the perimeter. The VEXpro 3-CIM single reduction single speed gearbox is also .125" I believe.
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I don't know what you're trying to accomplish with an 8 motor drive, but I don't think it will be of much benefit. You're going to really tax your main breaker and the voltage drop you induce in the battery might even offset the gain of the 4th motor to some extent.
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We ran 8 motors this year and loved it. We haven't popped our main breaker once. Depending on design constraints we'll likely go with it again in the future.