CIM Motors reusable?

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Originally Posted by jeremy callahan

we also had some issues with the bag motor. they ran great at the beginning but at the end of the day you would have to resort to "kick starting" the wheel to get it up to speed. If we could figure out how to stop having to "kick start" it we would like to use them. But we just don't want to have to rely on that in the middle of competition. That's our opinion on them.

The information you provided would be much more helpful with further context. Please post details of your shooter design,including:

- how the motor was mounted to the frame and to the wheel

- disk compression

- gear reduction from motor to wheel

- speed of the motor at shooter operating speed

- wheel speed controller (e.g open or closed loop)

- duty cycle (continuous or on-demand)

- pictures would be helpful

- if you have it, motor amps at operating speed

But more importantly: Did you contact VEX, and discuss this with them, and send them the motor for failure analysis?