Thread: How far can you gear up a nine inch Mechanum without blowing the jaguars?
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Re: How far can you gear up a nine inch Mechanum without blowing the jaguars?
You may damage the motor, the jaguar is made to take 40-amps continuous and it has a 40-amp breaker to protect it and if I remember right they have a built in thermal overload protection so they won't overheat..

Motor curves are your friend if you are considering this. They can be found in the KOP manual.

That being said I am with Don and Chris, if nobody on your team can do motor curves and drive gearing, I think you should focus on those aspects with off the shelf 8 or 10" mecanums, provided you didn't just type 9 by mistake not realizing their true dimensions
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