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Re: Motor Testing

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
It's a fun engineering problem.
I agree with Tom that this could be a cool engineering problem for teams to solve.

For example, those of you who have had physics and who are familiar with constant acceleration problems... could you come up with a way to test the motor with just some inertia attached to the motor as well as an encoder attached to the output shaft?

Those of you who have a spare IFI controller lying around.... could you come up with a routine to operate the test instrumentation?

This would make a good topic for a high school or college physics/engineering project. It would make a great topic for a presentation at FRC technical seminars like the one in Atlanta avery year.