Thread: Van Door Motors for Drivetrain
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Re: Van Door Motors for Drivetrain
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/14/2001 8:19 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Re: Van Door Motors for Drivetrain
Posted by Michael Quayle on 1/14/2001 8:06 PM EST:



Van door motors are the third powerful motor within the motors provided, while drill motors are the most powerfull, and fisherprice second. Most teams use Van Door motors for high torque operation, while drill motors for drive trains.

There are couple of reasons: 1. One of the most important feature of Van door motor is that as the motors heats up, it will reduce power output, therefore the motor will slow down when you use it for a period of time. If you use it for drive train, you do not want to drive them for the for a long time. 2. The Van Door motors are pretty heavy, so when you want to build a light robot, you might not want to use them. 3. Van door motors do not like hard stops, while in the drill motor gear assembly you can take the stopping pins away so under hard stop, it will not destory the drill motors assembly while you are risking destorying the worm gear inside the Van door motor.


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