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Re: Mecanum Drive Killing Battery

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Originally Posted by DinerKid View Post
With that being said... did it work out in your situation that you were running the CIMs with the desired current and still running at a decent speed? obviously you can design the CIM's to run at any current but if doing that means you are going to drive at a snails pace then it is kind of pointless. Was the robot that you are talking about able to drive with average speed without drawing too much current or was it slow?
The mecanum robot was normal speed. The others were easily normal speed or fast. No breakers tripping, that I remember.
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