2012 motors?

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

If you have a lot of 500 sized motors left, whats to stop people from putting multiple sets in drive and getting ridiculously powerful drivetrains?

Even if teams did end up only going with 2 cims per drive, isn't that the new standard then? and pinning/pushing will still happen?

CIMs can get closer to stall conditions multiple times before burning out. We've had BB550's & 775's smoke after a few iterations of running them around 30-35 amps for prototype lifts. I'm a bit smarter now than I was then so I can calculate for some safety margins, but for a drive train I don't think there's enough safety margin for these motors.

I think, iirc, 25 tried 2 BB550's + 2 CIMs in '08, and said they had to replace the 550's a couple of times. I think they wound up going down to 2 CIMs only in Atlanta? I could be mistaken.

Of course, I could totally be missing something; I wasn't around for the drill motors of '04 so I don't know how many of those burned out on field.