Some people asked about the 2004 254 robot. Yes, we did use The FP motors last year to power our arm, and no we are not using them for our arm this year. It was our original intent to use them, but we have changed our design, based on the FIRST blast information. We will be using the FP motors as supplied by first in our drive drain, but will use in tandem with other motors.

We are planning to use them through a unmodified PWM - We have no plans at this time to regulate the voltage down to six volts before sending it to the PWM, because 1) we don't know if that's legal (would require addition of some inexpensive electronics -a couple of high amperage solid state voltage
regulators) 2) We don't know if the PWMs would work correctly, if only 6 volts is being fed into them( I don't see why they wouldn't, but I am not a EE!). Our plan is to run the FPs and replace or remove them if they fail. We did have to fine tune our gearing so that the other motor overdrives the FP and not the other way around. We are estimating the FPs are contributing < 25% of the power to our drive.

To everyone struggling with this - good luck. Overcoming limitations in your
supplied equipment is part of the challenge.