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Re: Best way to cool CIM motors?

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Originally Posted by theCADguy View Post
We designed part of our lifter gearbox with VEXPro versaplanetary gearboxes. However, I would check your load requirement against this document before purchasing one:

http://content.vexrobotics.com/vexpr...s-20150106.pdf

Watch out if you are planning on using a very low reduction with a CIM or a MiniCIM
Only if you plan on using all of that load. We have a pretty fast elevator (1-2ft/sec) and we haven't run into load problems yet in the versaplanetary.