Fisher Price Motors

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Uchia_Itachi

Hello everybody. Im a verteran member of my team 1561, the Roboducks. Although I have spent a lot of time on our previous robots, we never tried to use the fisher price motor. This hear we are thinking about using the fisher price motor, but do not know how to go about doing that. It would really help if anyone could tell us how you have used it in previous competitions and how you would go about hooking it up. Thanks in advance.

The Fisher Price motors are among the most powerful motors in the kit.

They are wonderful little power packs.

You have to be careful not to load the motor so that it runs too slow or the motor will fry but, that is pretty easily done. For the most part it just means picking a high enough gear ratio and not running the motors to stall if you are driving an arm or something against a stop.

I also am a big fan of using the FP motor but not the FP gearboxes. I think the Nothing But Dewalt Whitepaper is a good method. But unless you need shifting, I have come to believe that the Banebots transmissions are the easiest and best methods to get useful work out of a FP motor.

Read this thread: Fisher Price Motor Replacement Gearbox
for more good discussion around using Banebots transmissions with FP motors.

Joe J.