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Re: motor stall current vs Victor ratings
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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
50 amps
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The 50A rating of these connectors includes a fairly significant safety factor. To qualify the initial design and the tooling, or to validate changes such as a new material or supplier, the connector manufacturers probably test at some service factor (maybe 1.25?) for a relatively long duration (maybe 2000 hours?) and in an elevated ambient temperature envirionment to ensure that 50A is a conservative rating.
As used in FRC (very short duration loading to 160A, typical 2 minute loading within marked rating) these connectors won't get warm enough to worry about, unless their terminals are incorrectly crimped. That won't be an issue if you use the factory crimped units that come in the KoP.
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 25-12-2006 at 20:42.
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