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Pat Roche Pat Roche is offline
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Re: CHIPS

Ok lets recap this alittle.
Drills give more power for a longer period of time under stress BUT will burnout
variable speed with gearbox..high rpm without
CIMs dont burn out very easily...or in some cases at all...are more power efficient and are high RPM.

So I guess this means you have to make deicisions. Do you want to risk possibly burning out your drill motors? Or would you rather risk losing some power with the atwoods?

For my team we would rather risk losing some power from the atwoods..


OOO...let me share something with everyone. Last year at river rage we slapped together a new robot to test our new tranny. at one point we lost one cim due to wiring errors and burnt out the last of our drills cept for one(it was a two motor drive) Coincidently the two motors were on oppisite sides of the robot. It drive great with the two motors opposite of each other...had great power and drove the straightest it had all day.

-Thought I'd share...


-Pat
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