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Originally posted by GregT
My ONLY complaint about the drill engines is that they heat up and make funny smells. When they make funny smells the big people tell us to turn the robot off.
They overheat, bad. I have no problem working around their power/speed issues, infact i think its a great power/speed. Teams with light robots can move much faster then teams with huge ones (using just the gearbox that came with the drill).
Maybe switch to a better drill ?)
Oh well... next year i'm personally water - cooling the suckers.
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The drill motors is a completely fine motor. In fact, it's probably one of the better 12 volt drill motors you can buy. It's just the fact that we tend to put them under much higher loads then they were ever expected to preform. If you're having significant problems with the drill motors overheating, there probably is a problem with the drive train and not the motor itself. Usually it's not the motor's fault.
Matt
Why subject your robot to a potential sensor failure when you can train a monkey (or a student, if monkeys are lacking) to put the tube at the right height every time? - JVN [more] 
07-08-2001, 08:44
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