⁶ CIM drive-train brown out

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

This robot is currently running on a Roborio. and still no Brownouts

Edit: I should add that we had each wheel independently powered by it's own CIM through Versa planetaries

Have you gotten in a pushing match with said robot while running it on the roborio while also running multiple other subsystems of the robot after 2 solid minutes of play?

Those are the brownout conditions we're talking about

[PowerfulKitty]

+1 to everything KrazyKarl92 said

In addition, in my experience, versa planetaries are not suitable for sustained, high torque applications. We had versa planetaries with bag motors powering our rather heavy intake arm in 2014, and they tend to fail internally. They are fixable, but you don't want to have one fail.

Brownouts are not likely especially because only four CIMs will be on the ground at any time, I expect the gearboxes to fail before you could get near there anyway.