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Designing out brownouts?
Going into my fifth and final year of FRC I am looking to push my team into new and unfamiliar areas. For me that starts with a strong drive train. These last few years my team has been usings and exploring custom gearboxes but every one has had 4 cims. This year game permitting I hope to have 6 cims.
While using JVN calc for speeds I am unnerved by what each motor is drawing at stall, 60-80amps each. Easily enough to blow the main breaker if held for more than a moment.
We use Victor SP motor controllers for the drive train, can we implement current control to prevent this? Also for the none programmer I am could the pseudo code be explained?
Also can anyone explain to me the exact correlation between high current draw and voltage drop?
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“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” ― Anonymous
Anthony Cardinali
4th year of FRC
Class of 2017
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There is something completely respectful and amazing to see FIRST teams who have members go through 4 years of the program without winning a single competition or even a single award. Those are the teams that are looked at by others and respected for what they do. - fuzzwaz [more] 
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