6 CIM motors max, but unlimited AndyMark Bane-Bot motors

[paul.dornfeld]

Originally Posted by pilleya

Full size CIM's are the only motor that has a 'limit' this season.

This is not related to the limit, but Andymark does not actually have "Bane-bots" motors, are you talking about the 550 style 9015 or the Andymark PG 775 motor.

It is important to note that the Andymark Planetary Gearbox with 775 motor is not a banebots RS775-18 and is a Andymark RS775-125 which is very weak in comparison to the Banebots or WCP 775 motors. It has less than 20% of the output power of the RS775-18.

Oh! Thank you for the clarification. That is important.

[paul.dornfeld]

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

The WAGO slots on the PDP are the "ports" that you plug your motor-controller wires into.

You can not (FRC-legally) modify the PDP to have more WAGO slots. The MORE board allows you to have more PWM outputs, but won't actually give you more WAGO slots.

Edit:

As to your question about the "Y" connector:

Yes you could do that. Make sure that each CIM motor is connected to it's own motor controller, and each of those motor controllers are connected to different WAGO slots.

Keep in mind, whatever PWM signal you send into the "Y" cable will be sent to both. You can't address each motor controller individually that way. So make sure that the motors spin the correct directions and aren't fighting each other once inside the gearbox.

Fantastic info. Thank you.

[pilleya]

Originally Posted by paul.dornfeld

Oh! Thank you for the clarification. That is important.

There is a helpful comparison between most legal motors available at

http://motors.vex.com/

[paul.dornfeld]

Originally Posted by pilleya

There is a helpful comparison between most legal motors available at

http://motors.vex.com/

Thank you so much. That is an excellent resource and is now on my wall as a permanent reference.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

This would be an appropriate time to remind everyone that the battery can only supply so much energy. You can load up a lot of motors but running many of them at the same time will lead to brownouts. There is no free lunch fellow knights.

[paul.dornfeld]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

This would be an appropriate time to remind everyone that the battery can only supply so much energy. You can load up a lot of motors but running many of them at the same time will lead to brownouts. There is no free lunch fellow knights.

Thank you for that excellent information. Our plan is to use the smaller motors intermittently, and independently of each other as arm actuators, So at any given time there would be our four CIM drive motors and only one smaller motor operating. Hopefully, we won't be taxing the electrical system too much.