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Re: Keeping drive motors cool

971 puts big ol muffin fans right over their drive motors every year. From what I've heard, they cool down the motors pretty well in practice and elim matches. I've also seen 1323 just blow a regular plug in fan into their robot between elim matches while charging their tanks. A lot of teams (like 254) turn canned air bottles upside down and then spray them on their drive motors. This really does cool motors down quickly, but is quite wasteful environmentally speaking.

We've always just grabbed some cool gel packs from the fridge and wedged them on top of our compressor and between out drive motors. It's a sort of janky fix, but it's mobile, quick, and works pretty well.
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