Suicide Cables Safe for Motors?

[EmileH]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Yes, FRC motors can cook themselves, under some circumstances. Mostly, when they stall (don't move) while being powered. With some motors, this can even happen on the robot before the breaker trips.

Can confirm this. During one of 3467's 2015 practice sessions, we stopped mid-match before we were about to place a six stack + can and noodle while leaving the robot enabled. It turned out that our software was still holding a position slightly above ground level, hence stalling our two-miniCIM elevator for more than two minutes. It did not trip the PDP breakers. After that, those two miniCIMs were cooked for good (also the shop smelled considerably of burning CIM internals ).