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Originally Posted by rufu5
120A continuous? Pretty wicked  |
Maybe you'll at last be able to drive the magic smoke out of that CIM! 120A continuous current from the 885 is more than sufficient to stall the CIM long enough to destroy it.
To use more current, we'd need bigger motors. Bigger motors increase robot power and also mechanical stresses, thus requiring more strength (and therefore more weight) in the mechanisms that use them. And of course more powerful robots would require a more robust field to contain them.
I think the robots are wearing out the carpet, field boundaries, field elements, and game pieces fast enough as things stand now -- more power is not needed.
More (robot) intelligence is.
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