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Re: Kitbot transmission plate

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Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138
Actually...why would you 'have' to cool the motors? They're good motors and they havn't burned out. We actually raised our robot and had it go full speed foward and had the wheels run for lik, 20 minutes or so and the motor didn't even get warm.
That's exactly what I'd expect to happen, given you're running them under no load.

Run them near stall and they'll get hot a lot faster.

But like has been said many times before, by the time the surface of the motor gets hot, you've damaged the internals of the motor irreparably.
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