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12-03-2011, 14:30

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Re: Geardown on minibot motors?

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Originally Posted by basicxman

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Would be curious to see the results of that...generally 3:1 can burn out motors pretty fast...

He is referring to modifying the gear box from 52 to 1 to 10.4 to 1. The 10.4 to one works great, got us to under 2 sec. The key is the overall effective gearing which includes the wheel diameter as well as any gearing internal or external to the transmission.

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