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Re: pic: Too much power?

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Originally Posted by Cash4587 View Post
I am not too worried about tripping the main breaker. If it does happen, I guess lesson learned. I will take off the mini cims at that point. Seeing Spectrum 3847 using the same combo of motors on their drive train gives me some confidence to run this setup. I do agree that shifting would be ideal but the purpose of this gearbox is to actually go into a tex-coast drive. The "shifting" will actually done by deploying your traction wheels which have a second reduction.
A word of advice, you should be worried. One of the reasons we haven't tripped our breaker is because we are very worried about tripping our main breaker. We do a lot of things to avoid that situation from ever happening.
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