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Originally Posted by RoboChair
You actually KILLED a CIM motor? I thought they were indestructible....
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Originally Posted by MishraArtificer
That does not seem physically possible...
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The motor drives our forklift by way of a pair of belts. In bagged configuration we completely removed the forklift carriage and fork assembly as well as the belts. So on Thursday, we assembled the carriage and clamped it securely to the frame while reinstalling and tensioning the belts. The next step was to assemble the rest of the fork while everything was still clamped.
Meanwhile, the robot inspector had us power on the robot to test pneumatics and other things "down below" in the drive frame. I don't really know how or why it happened, but we suspect that when the robot was put into teleop mode to test the compressor, the forklift motor was somehow activated. In any case, the motor became incredibly hot and started to not only send smoke into the air, but began to drip melted winding insulation.
Oops.
