banebot smoke

[J_Miles]

My guess is that your spacer still isn't allowing enough airflow. You might do well to look into machining grooves for ventilation into the CIM-U-Lator plates. There's a thread addressing this. We've posted CAD drawings of our modifications.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ight=cimulator

I can't think of any other reason, unless maybe your motors are opposing each other, although I'd think that if that were the case it would have been caught ealier.

[Dan-o]

The quickest way to generate heat on those motors is to run them at a stall. Are you using the motors to hold an arm steady while a force is applied? If so, you are stalling the motors.

If your motors are spinning and are still melting, I would guess air flow would be your issue. Hope this helps!

[rwood359]

We smoked a 775 with an over aggressive PID. It was applying alternating large plus and minus motor sets. It didn't take long.