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Re: pic: Team 1717's PenguinBot 2008

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Originally Posted by Pikat View Post
Yeah, we brought many replacement fp's for our winch to SVR and to Atlanta, but we never had to change them out. We had never used fp's before, and we read all sorts of horror stories about them blowing on CD. They are great motors to work with if you use them properly.
Yeah, for winches, FP would be my choice (unless CIM's are available obviously). On 269, we used FP quite often for elevator winches and robot lifting winches (in 07). I don't recall ever blowing one, but they do get awefully hot sometimes.

Our 2005 robot had an arm on top of an elevator, and we lifted the elevator with 2 FP motors.
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