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Re: The drills are not FP or Delphi Power Sliding Door Motors...
Posted by Matt Leese.

Student on team #7 from Parkville High School and NASA, Black & Decker, AAI, Raytheon.

Posted on 7/1/2000 6:53 PM MST


In Reply to: The drills are not FP or Delphi Power Sliding Door Motors... posted by Joe Johnson on 7/1/2000 8:41 AM MST:



I think the fact that they're 100+ amp stall motors should have little to do with it because the 30 amp circuit breakers should trigger before that. Also, I was under the impression that the drill motors were of higher quality meaning that overall they should draw less power for most use (correct me if I'm wrong). I haven't seen all that many fuses blow on the so called 'good teams' (I'd prefer not to use it as it sounds too elitist) but from what I've seen it tends to occur when those teams try to push their robots too hard. The 60 amp fuse just places a good limit on how far the robots can be pushed. It also helps to limit the amount of complexity of the robot because you can't really run every single motor provided or the fuse will blow.

Matt Leese, who thinks this discussion will go on for awhile now....


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