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Re: Does motor temp affect performance?

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan View Post
Going back to the problem at hand.



If you have the ability to do it, gear down your motors a wee bit. All of these high temp scenarios can lead to some ugly consequences in the heat of competition (pun intended). You really are playing with fire (also intended).
I can defiantly agree with that. We burned out a couple CIMs and ended up blowing out a victor. And I don't mean that beautiful magic smoke. They had to get the fire extinguisher because the fire was spreading down out electronics board. Defiantly an important lessoned learned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMuKH9WkZo

Granted we really did push the CIM way way too far with that design.
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