Keeping drive motors cool

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by R.C.

The 971 method of putting permanent fans is also a great solution, we've been wanting to do it for years but we for some reason don't... Probably cause we are lazy.

It is really easy. Just bend a flange off the gearbox plate and add some mounting holes to that. Or you can zip-tie them around the CIMs without doing any engineering if you really want. We put small fans on all the other motors which heat up.

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

It is really easy. Just bend a flange off the gearbox plate and add some mounting holes to that. Or you can zip-tie them around the CIMs without doing any engineering if you really want. We put small fans on all the other motors which heat up.

Do you just use 1 large fan from the kits per 2 CIM motors, or do you have a special setup?

[Travis Schuh]

You can only use fans from the kit, so we just use the 2 large fans with one per side as you guessed. The 3rd CIMs this year did not have a fan.

[MichaelBick]

We added 2 permanent large fans to the drive motors today. We didn't get to test them out because we were working on adding a couple other things for Fall Classic this Saturday, though they seemed like they will work very well. I don't think we will be able to test it for drive practices before then, but we'll get to test them in competition/elims on Saturday. We also purchased a couple compressed air cans to test those out too.