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Unread 12-01-2006, 16:58
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Re: Quick Q for "noob" at first

Heres something intresting, good topic.

Now most of the motors in the kit tend to run pretty cool, and the further away from stall torque they are, the cooler they will run. From experince and what I've heard from other teams is that if any motor in the Kit run hot, it's the small Fisher-Price motors (not the Really Big Cims, or the Mini Bike Motors) What do people do to combat that effectively?

Fans do take a bit of time to move the heat out of the area with the motor, whats an easy way of speeding this up? Add a heat sink. How? Take some copper or the best heat conducting material you can find, and wrap some of the motor in it. Add a fan or two, and it'll run nice and smooth. The kit muffin fans are good enough, if you wanna go and deck your robot out in all fancy computer case fans, check the electronics rules first, and check the connections on them.
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