CIM motor testing

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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Lifting will tempt you to use heavier loads so that elapsed time is longer, and therefore easier to compare. However, longer test duration will heat the motors, causing maximum available power to decrease significantly.

If the goal of testing is to find the 4 best motors for a drive train, would that help the goal? As long as the motors are subject to the same condition (i.e. motor in test starts room temperature, is subject to test exactly 10 times, and then wait X hours before testing with motor again).

Also thanks for the links, they're very good resources. As an aside, it looks like the VEX folks had motors catching fire in under a minute.