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Re: Wire sizes: 14 AWG in the 2017 KOP

Also once you are over 8 motors on your 40A breakers you have to start moving them down to 30A breakers. So we wire MiniCIMs and 775pros to 30A breakers all the time. Basically motors 8-16 on any robot have to be on 30A or 20A breakers.

We normally wire all of our motors with 10 or 12 AWG wire just encase we need to swap them to a larger breaker. Then most of our smaller gauge items are wired with 18 AWG. This keeps things simpler.
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