After many hours of driving the robot (particularly the arm) for a demo-day, we decided to take advantage of CRREL's thermal cameras and take some pictures. We learned some interesting, if obvious, things about the robot.
To reference what our robot looks like:
http://r95.org/?p=90
In this picture note the hot window motors that run the arm's gripper, and the warmed area around the roller sprockets on the gripper.
The compressor is very hot, and surprisingly the cRIO is quite warm. The power distribution board and 10awg wire is very cool though.
Under the robot note the slightly warm AM gen-1 shifter transmissions and the VERY warm arm motors. The RS775-18 in the DeWalt housing is a bit hotter than the RS775-18 in the banebots 64:1 P60, presumably the P60 acts as a better heat sink.
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