RS-550 current draw

[Jon Stratis]

I've got a question for the brilliant minds here at CD... How much current is too much for a 550 when running it at full speed (not stalling) for 2+ minutes? In other words, any idea what the limit is before you burn out the motor?

On our shooter, each 550 is drawing about 7A when the shooter is at full speed (and 8-9A when it's spinning up the flywheel to get to full speed). There is as little binding as possible in the system (we had more binding in our shooter for Lunacy than we do here), we checked. Instinct tells me we should be fine with that, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to come on here and see what other teams have experienced!

PS. I'm going to try to get the team to launch a ball straight up at full speed at some point at North Star, just to see if we can hit the rafters in Mariucci Arena! Our robot is going to have no trouble launching the ball to the other side of the field... now programming just has to slow it down so we can actually score.