Thread: Turning motors on and off in the KitGearbox?
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Turning motors on and off in the KitGearbox?
I was considering how to make the kitgearboxes run more efficiently, and I realized that running two CIMs in the boxes all the time draws a lot of juice. Would it be possible, and more importantly, efficient, to run only one CIM in the gearbox, and then, using a current sensor, kick in the other CIM when the current draw reached a certain point? The motors would be on coast, so I'm assuming they should b easy to bakdrive. Has anyone done this?
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