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Re: pic: WCD Summer Project

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Originally Posted by Knufire View Post
Are you sure? From the data someone (234?) posted before last season, it seems like the voltage drop from simply accelerating from a standstill with six CIMs on a fully charged battery would result in a brownout condition. Of course this can be mitigated by setting a max dV/dt or doing more elaborate forms of current control, but you quickly run into a scenario where producing an effective six CIM system is substantially harder than buying a different COTS gearbox.
From a standstill, full-forward or full-reverse situation, hitting six CIMs hard would drop the voltage enough to cause motor brownouts. However, if you were only pushing on one side, or if you needed to still have some torque going after you were at some speed, having that third CIM on each side could come in handy. It's not likely, but it's possible if the game (and your strategy) requires this sort of activity.
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