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Re: Need help with mini motors

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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
All jokes aside... yea... I'm not sure what use these motors could have. Possibly put a small fan on the end of them to keep something cool? We've never used the large fans they provide in the kit either, nothing ever gets hot enough to need them. We did use a small muffin fan to cool a FP motor down.
BaneBots with their gearboxes are plenty strong enough for light applications. 330 used a pair in 2007 for ramps. No penalties for expansion, and one case of pulling the ramps up to go block a spoiler.
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