CIM Motor Failure

[Jim Wilks]

Originally Posted by Dale

While it doesn't usually seem to be a problem during competition since motors have time to cool, one thing we might try is adding a display to the driver's station that shows the motor temperature. That would be handy for practice and demos. Has anyone done this and if so what sensor did you use?

We did monitor motor case temperature using this simple and inexpensive sensor:

http://www.analog.com/en/mems-sensor...s/product.html

We wired it via a resistor to the Analog card on the CRIO.