Thread: Measuring motor current (anyone tried this?)
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Re: Measuring motor current (anyone tried this?)
What about fabricating a cable out of the Anderson power connectors pig tails the goes between the battery and the robot power connector? The special cable can have either a 50mv shunt or an appropriate length and sized wire to provide a voltage drop when the CIMs are running. Now remove all ckt bkrs but the one CIM under test and measure the voltage drop/current. This cable can be fabricated without interfering with the bot and quickly installed and removed.
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