[Dan Richardson]

The cool thing about those 120 amp breakers is because of their thermal element you could cool them and run at higher than 120 for a fair amount of time.

Because 2 of our lead mentors are Electrical Engineers and Thermodynamics engineers they often talked about if they were to put a sort of heat sink near the breaker module itself and were able to cool it, then you might be able to run at high current for a period, we called it like hitting the nas.

This might be beneficial if you are using something like a 6 motor drive in a high torque game.

But to get more on track about the topic. Our team has never used anything but chips on our drive since they were introduced in 2002. The reason being, is the first year soo many teams had problems smoking their drills. The big and beefy chips never had this problem so we tended to use them, then because of familiarity we used them.

Some of the students and mentors did some number crunching on the motors, to come up with a motor efficiency number. I wasn't involved with this as much but I was told that the Chips where the number 1 rated motor for their curve efficiency level. I would have to find out what they used to determine that and get back to you.