Compressed air for rapidly cooling motors?

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by BJC

First off, Aren Hill deserves all credit for this idea.

Basically, the mounting holes for a CIM type motor are the only access points to the inside of the motor. For reasons described earlier cooling is much more effective when air is forced directly past the armature. When you put 2 and 2 together you end up with hollow fasteners. I'll leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.

Cheers, Bryan

If you mean replacing the bolts holding the motor together with different ones... I would think this is a violation of R30:

The integral mechanical and electrical system of any motor must not be modified.

Those bolts are pretty integral to the mechanical system of the robot... without them the whole thing falls apart and stops working!