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Originally Posted by InfernoX14
He mentioned there was a two stage reduction, one with gears then one with sprockets.
And yes, they look very nice. How many times (if any) did you have to replace the FP motors?
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Once.... because someone pulled the power lead off the back. We never burned out a FP though, even though we were playing rather rough with them.
The spur gears are from andymark, so that is a 14:50 from the small CIm (28:50 for the big). The 10 tooth sprocket drives a 42 tooth on a 6" wheel. It was actually closer to 9 fps if i remember right.
As for the weight, it was about as low as it could get, I don't have the official weight, but I know the mounting plate is about .4 lbs... So that, plus the three motors and gears makes up the weight. The other plate would be a frame member so that doesn't count i guess. Without motors, they are about the lightest I have seen (the 50 tooth gears were later spoked and hogged out to save some weight there as well) besides Travis Covington's amazing creation.
When I get home from work tonight I'll check the CAD models and get a weight.