Intake wheel motors

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Deke

You can run the versa planetary without modifying the CIM output shaft.

We found that that can work but it comes with some caveats.
1. Some CIM motors have the keyseat cut at the back of the output shaft, this makes it near impossible to have any amount of key in the input coupler to transfer toque unless you cut the shaft down some.

2. It adds a lot of length to the whole assembly.

[Deke]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

We found that that can work but it comes with some caveats.
1. Some CIM motors have the keyseat cut at the back of the output shaft, this makes it near impossible to have any amount of key in the input coupler to transfer toque unless you cut the shaft down some.

2. It adds a lot of length to the whole assembly.

You are correct. I forgot that we did have to sort through our CIM motors to find suitable keyseat flavors.

There were two reasons we didn't want to cut the shaft down.
1. To use the CIM motors for other applications later that required a normal output shaft.
2. With such a long assembly, we had a slightly improved side mounting with the input stage tapped holes kept in the assembly.