Creative uses for servos?

[WakeZero]

Originally posted by Veselin Kolev
Quite impressive transmission. Even more so for a rookie team. But on the subject of motor cooling, we never did it. You think it would help, but not really. Blowing air on the motor doesn't do much. The motor doen't have enough surface area. Even if you make a custom heat sink and use silicon thermal gel, you still won't do much. You'll cool the outside of the motor, so you'll cool the magnets. You don't really cool the wire windings, and that's what you want to cool.

First, thanks for the compliment =)

As for the cooling fans, I forgot to mention that they are all pointing in the same direction. So you have:

Fan --> Motor --> Fan

The arrows represent the airflow, and the left fan brought in the cool air while the right fan sucked out the hot air. I can see your point about just blowing cool air onto the casing, but we actually took the hot air out

It may not have made a huge difference, but we did notice that after we installed them we never overheated like we did a couple times before