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Re: HELP!

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Originally Posted by ll4m4ra0r View Post
To all you non-believers :

We drove around for a few solid 30-minute intervals with the drive on linoleum. (After each time the drive was very hot though. ) Granted, it's not carpet, but hey, when it was working, it didn't have overheating problems after a match. We went to, and performed very well at, a "playdate" the Saturday before ship date on the NASA-Goddard field, and the drive worked beautifully (until we had an issue with bending an omni on a plate). So that leads me to believe very strongly that there is not a fundamental design problem so much as a newly-acquired mechanical problem.
Problem #1: non-carpeted surface in testing, and your motors are very hot. There's something there that just doesn't sound right, even though you carpet tested on the Goddard field. I think it is a design problem.
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