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Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

Hello Everbody,

I represent Team 1748, and we need help wiring.

Do anyone know how to wire a fisher price motor.
We would also like to know what gauge key to use for a victor or a jaguar.

We appreciate the help for this.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

I don't know how much you know, so I'll give the info in whole.
Victor/Jaguar depends on if you want it to just be on and off or if you need fine control over it. A Victor works well enough for digital control (such as a button on a game controller), but a Jaguar is more useful for throttling. I trust 14 AWG wire for most of our motors, and I believe a 20 amp breaker (although I would have to check it's not 30). The motor itself attaches to small female connectors, but it's notoriously a loose connection. Make sure the connectors are new and fit tightly (you may also want to tape them on).
That's all I can say towards wiring it.
Sorry about the other question.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

You have to refer to r44

Application Minimum wire size
40A circuit 12 AWG (2.052mm)
30A circuit 14 AWG (1.628mm)
20A circuit 18 AWG (1.024mm)

With that said, I would recommend soldering wires to the terminals of the fisher price motor. I find it difficult to put 12 gauge wire on the terminal and I usually use 14AG and 30 amps for the FP.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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Victor/Jaguar depends on if you want it to just be on and off or if you need fine control over it. A Victor works well enough for digital control (such as a button on a game controller).
I think you are confusing the victor 884 with a spike relay. The victor 884 does have effective variable speed control.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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I would recommend soldering wires to the terminals of the fisher price motor.
Avoid soldering unless you're confident you can do so without damaging the motor brushes. The heat spread into the motor tabs by soldering could easily damage the brushes and reduce motor performance. Try using 3/16" quick disconnects with hot glue and appropriate stress relief for the wires.

FPs can easily draw up to 40A. Select the fuse and corresponding wire gauge as is appropriate for its application.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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I think you are confusing the victor 884 with a spike relay. The victor 884 does have effective variable speed control.
I know it does, but we only put Victors on analog motors that we use in a digital manner, because the Jaguars are more precise.
Spikes are for strict digital-only.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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The FP motors have a smaller terminal than that used for other electrical connections on the robot. I believe they are 3/16" instead of the 1/4" used for other devices like the Spike. Soldering is recommended to keep the terminals or wiring in place but it requires an experienced person to do so. The FP (and other motors) have an internal thermal circuit breaker. In the FP motor, this protection device is connected directly to the terminals. Soldering can pull this assembly out of alignment inside the motor and make it fail.
We use a flag terminal of the proper size, soldered to the end of the motor wire. Then after scraping the motor terminal to remove the protective film, we push the terminal into place and solder the terminal to the motor. We follow this with a piece of heatshrink tubing and then bend the wires down along the side of the motor and using a wire tie, secure them in place. Any tug or vibration on the motor wire is likely to fatigue the motor terminal without this secondary strain relief.
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but we only put Victors on analog motors that we use in a digital manner, because the Jaguars are more precise.
What do you mean by "more precise" ?


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What do you mean by "more precise" ?

We just trust the Jaguars more for running things like the drive and shooter motors because we like the performance a little more than the Victors, but precise could have been poor word choice.
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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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We just trust the Jaguars more for running things like the drive and shooter motors because we like the performance a little more than the Victors, but precise could have been poor word choice.
Not to go off-topic, but there are many who regard the Victors as a higher performance product in various ways. No CAN though, of course.
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Not to go off-topic, but there are many who regard the Victors as a higher performance product in various ways. No CAN though, of course.
In what various ways would Victors be "higher performance" than Jags?



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In what various ways would Victors be "higher performance" than Jags?




There were posts last year about the output curve of the Jaguar not being as smooth as the victor, giving bad output to the Window Motors, if I remember correctly. And making a victor go bad is quite difficult.
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In what various ways would Victors be "higher performance" than Jags?
Theoretically lower on-resistance (though not a significant difference).
Smaller and lighter for the same basic power capability.
No built-in restriction on current draw, letting systems push the boundaries of ultimate capability before failure.
The slower PWM output of a Victor actually helps certain mechanical systems to work better at slow speed.
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There were posts last year about the output curve of the Jaguar not being as smooth as the victor, giving bad output to the Window Motors, if I remember correctly.
The Jag's output curve is just as "smooth" and far more linear than the Vic's, as can be seen here. The putative compatibility problem of Jags & window motors has been widely discussed but the underlying cause not definitively understood AFAIK.

The higher PWM output frequency of the Jag causes somewhat less motor heating (for the same output torque) compared to the Vic, for some motors at slow speed.

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And making a victor go bad is quite difficult.
I guess we are using a different vocabulary. In engineering parlance, that's not a performance issue, it's a reliability issue. Handled properly (read: don't pack them full of metal shavings and don't reverse the battery polarity... reasonable expectations) and used in a properly-designed system, black Jags have had a good reliability record for many teams.


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Re: Wiring a Fisher Gear Motor

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There were posts last year about the output curve of the Jaguar not being as smooth as the victor, giving bad output to the Window Motors, if I remember correctly. And making a victor go bad is quite difficult.
The deal with Jags and Window motors is that the Jags output at a higher frequency (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=14). The jags actually have a smoother output curve than Victors. The Vics have relatively few discrete steps (http://www.vexforum.com/showthread.php?t=20350)

Also, note that FPs are required to be controlled by a Jag or a Victor (NOT a spike). R50a.
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