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Re: Turning motors on and off in the KitGearbox?
Well, by cutting out a motor 50% of the time, at say 80% efficiency, you save about 40% of the juice you'd need to run both motors all the time. Which is not neccessary usually. 40% savings is pretty good in my book, and relatively easy to implement, using just a couple of sensors and a bit of code. Running 4 CIMs and 1 window motor last year, all of them being used pretty much the whole match, we could get 2, maybe three matches before the battery needed to be replaced. So, that kind of energy savings could be very useful.
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