CIM Motor Sacrifice

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Count me in for using a FP or 775 in the shooter. They'll be lighter for a nearly equivalent level of power, and you can leave your CIMs on your drivetrain. We'll probably lean to the RS775-18, since running an 18V motor at 12V gives you a little more margin for overheating, and (I think) the slightly heavier motor will give you a higher effective inertia, when it's all said and done.

A word of warning, that plagued many teams last year (but not ours, at all) is that the 775s can develop case shorts and cause all sorts of nasty issues.

Neither of our 775s caused an issues, and I think its because they were both electrically insulated from the chassis. This year we will be mounting them on wood or lexan panels to keep them isolated.

Then again, I might be totally off in this evaluation.