FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers

[EricH]

Originally Posted by DareDad

I don't see any reason to limit motors at all. The battery and robot weight limits enforce a practical limit on motors. If someone want's to build a robot with 28 CIMs, I say more power to them. Or rather exactly the same amount of power as the team that uses 2 CIMs. Good luck operating more than 6 to 8 of them simultaneously.

The problem is that then somebody is bound to try to ignore those limits and complain all over the Internet that the battery/power distribution/control/whatever system isn't good enough and needs to be fixed. (Just like the limits on pit setup during load-in!) It's not that the system is lousy, it's that you don't know how to use it properly!

Sometimes, you just have to have easy-to-enforce limits in place to keep someone from hurting themselves.