[jman4747]

Originally Posted by Max Boord

Good point. Although something tells me figuring out the exact tripping curve of a given main breaker at a given temperature would make a closed loop system very complex. Also, if your are limiting power on your 6 cim+ 2 mini cim drive why wouldn't you go with a simple 6 cim (and software limiters)? With 6 cims only providing a 20-30% acceleration boost over 4 cims, i can't really see how adding mini cims would be much of a gain in top speed or acceleration, not to mention the added complexity of custom or additional COTS gearboxes.

This.

I don't see how anyone could ever get an advantage from actually using near all allowable motors even now, and I don't think the OP is saying that's the sort of design this encourages. Allowing more motors in this context is to allow more options. Sure you could build two 3 cim 4 mini-cim gearboxes for each side of a tank drive but you're not going to get to use all 3782 watts. Extremes aside... in reality reducing motor restrictions wouldn't change much as the physical and hardware constraints make using all allowed power imposable. As stated before the context is more options and maybe it's doesn't need to be exactly this but I think FRC could use some more variety.