Thread: How to put two motors on one spike
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Re: How to put two motors on one spike
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Originally Posted by Breadbocks View Post

EDIT: @cpapplefamily: A regular motor controller can support 2x of the motors that a Spike can support 1x of. You can never have 2x motors on a Spike. Additionally, a CIM is not one of the motors listed as being able to run 2x of on a proper motor controller. Furthermore, you would never want to, because that one motor controller is still limited to the same 40A breaker, which 2 CIMs could pop in a heartbeat.

What CAN be done, which I believe your mentor may have confused with what you wrote, is that you can have 2 motor controllers on one PWM signal, using a Y cable and 1 PWM port on the RoboRIO.
Thanks for clearing that up Y-cable the PWM to two Motor Controllers.
I see now that Spikes(Relay) depicts 1 motor, Motor Controllers allow 2 smaller.