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Re: Experience With 6 Cim Drive train

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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296 View Post
Does this mean you were running (at least one pair of motors) in coast mode?

I suppose there probably isn't a huge difference between 4 and 6 brakes, so it doesn't matter I guess
Yes, two motors were on coast.

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I'm sure you already considered them, but in the event you didn't know about them, did you look at the 11 (or 13 tooth if you were running 14 tooth CIM pinion gears) tooth gears to drop in to replace the 12 tooth pinion gears?
We were running 11 tooth pinions at each of our events.
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