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Originally Posted by Pavan
I am slowly trying to learn something other than controls, and I am having trouble understanding this "torque fighting" you are speaking of. Could somebody explain this phenomena to me?
Thanks,
Pavan.
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Motor "fighting" can be explained in one word: nonexistent. It comes up a lot in FIRST, I don't know why. It simply is not true. As long as the motors are spinning in the same direction, they are both contributing useful torque to the cause. Now, if you have two different motors geared together, their load sharing may vary over a range of speed, but they will easily strike a happy medium. While you will not end up with the full torque of each motor added, you will have significantly more torque than just one of the motors. The efficiency of the system is likely to drop a bit though.