What motors do you use to drive your robot?

[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by Andrew

I was actually joking about using eight motors (counting the globes) in a drive system. Aside from the current draw thing, there would hardly be any motors left to do anything else or any weight allowance.

Oh, I figured you meant Globes instead of F-Ps (i.e. still six-motor) actually, but eight motor has been done before, sort of.

Originally Posted by Andrew

On the current draw thing, up to a point, as you add motors (especially in the drive system) there is a tendency to balance the load among the motors and run each motor at a lower current draw.

Yeah this is supposedly the case, but I think the difference is pretty negligible.