Breaking in banebot motors

[Jared]

Originally Posted by lark95

Hi all, as we are getting ready to start the build season i was wondering about different ways to increase speed and efficiency in the brushed drill motors. one way i have heard is from the RC car guys, running the motors for a short time in distilled water so that the brushes wear more evenly. Was wondering if anyone has tried this and what your results were. I am also looking at any ways to increase speed and efficiency.
thanks in advance.

I don't know about the bane bots motors, but some teams did this with the Tetrix minibot motors in 2011.

[DonRotolo]

Running them in air will do the trick as well.

Better than motors is to run in your gearboxes. Or both, as a pair.

We start with about 2 Amperes, gradually increasing voltage to maintain 2A. Once it gets to 12 volts or so, we reverse it and repeat. Then we disassemble, clean and re-grease the gearbox. Done.