Posted by Neel Parikh, Student on team #188, Woburn Robotics, from Woburn Collegiate.
Posted on 3/5/99 10:09 AM MST
In Reply to: Motors and Heat posted by Mike King on 3/4/99 7:50 PM MST:
:
: But anyway, those seat motors get really hot when you strain them
:like that, and we found that by putting an Icepack (Johnson&Johnson
:brand of course) over the motors a few minutes before the match would
:allow them to run it bit longer before the heat sensor tripped.
:Another thing we found, but didn't use cause we couldn't find a
:can of it, was compressed refrigant. We saw a few teams spraying
:it onto the motors, and Volia, instant frostie.
:

on't know the name of it, but I saw some at Radio Shack the other day.
Last year we used "Freeze-it" on our drill motors. It seemed to work well
but we could never find that can when we needed it. It should be available
at almost any electronics store. It's used to cool IC's, etc . . as far
as i know.
Hope that helps.
Neel
Woburn Robotics, Scarborough, Ontario
Team #188