Yea, we did run it without the drive belt attached and it ran fine, for as long as we wanted. we didnt check the free speed current draw of the motor but of the system as a whole and it never went above 16 amps during the shutoff. as far as the static guess, we tried that also by connecting a wire from a nut near the belt of the motor to the negative lead on the battery but it still shut down anyway. the connections are fairly far away from the chassis also because the electrical board is vertical in the front of the robot. the motor drives a rubber belt that runs a cloth belt that runs the height of the robot. from the given experiments we can safely say that the physical load on the CIM has to do with the problem considering it runs fine unloaded, but the issue is why does it only occur in the pit while teathered
thanks for the help btw
