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Re: Hot Motors

Kast year all we did was make our own completely aluminum mounts for the drills. They were connected directly to the frame. They acted as a huge heatsinc on each motor and it was all we needed. Never over heated once. This year we us ethe CIM's and we also have them mounted in an aliuminum gearbox/mount. The aluminum only touchs the black part of the CIM's though. It does some good, but because it is not on the endplate where the wires come out, and all the heat goes, it can't absorb that much. We are going to go with it though. Through our practices we have only had two cool down a couple of times, after ten min. of continuos running. Good luck with the heat problem.
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